The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 49
Su-yé-sai-pi clung to him and cried and begged, but her husband himself put her from him and went out, saying to her a last kind word.
Who acts: husband · What happens: cling, cry, beg, put, go out, say · To what, where: sai pi, yé, Su, last kind word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pi | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Su | punct |
| 3 | yé | yé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pi | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 yé | punct |
| 5 | sai | sai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pi | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 pi | punct |
| 7 | pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pi | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 clung | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 clung | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 begged | cc |
| 14 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | nsubj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 18 husband | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pi | parataxis |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 put | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 went | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 went | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saying | obl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 word | det |
| 32 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 word | amod |
| 33 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 word | compound |
| 34 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 saying | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pi | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | participle | sai pi Su yé not said here | yé | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | put | past | Su's husband yé | Su | from yé | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | |||
| 5 | go out | past | Su's husband yé not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | gerund | Su's husband yé not said here | a last kind word | Su | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to she=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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