The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 57
“Come,” said the chief to Su-yé-sai-pi, offering her the scalp from Front Wolf’s head—“come, join us in this dance and be happy.”
Who acts: chief · What happens: come, say, offer, join, be · To what, where: scalp, Su, head, us, dance · 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 (chief), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 pi | case |
| 9 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pi | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Su | punct |
| 11 | yé | yé | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pi | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sai | punct |
| 13 | sai | sai | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pi | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sai | punct |
| 15 | pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chief | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 offering | punct |
| 17 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 offering | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 scalp | det |
| 20 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 offering | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 22 | Front | Front | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Wolf | compound |
| 23 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Wolf | case |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 offering | obl |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 join | punct |
| 30 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | conj |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 join | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 dance | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 dance | det |
| 34 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 join | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 happy | cc |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 happy | cop |
| 37 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 come | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | offer | gerund | the chief not said here | the scalp | Su | Front Wolf's head | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal scalp=Theme | ||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | join in a quote | infinitive | us | this dance | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | infinitive | happy property | tree rules |
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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