The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 58
“You may kill me,” the woman replied, “but you cannot make me dance.
Who acts: You, woman · What happens: kill, reply, not make, not dance · To what, where: woman · 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 (You, woman), 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 | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 kill | aux |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kill | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 make | advmod |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | may | You | the woman = woman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not make in a quote | can | you | the woman = woman | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not dance in a quote | infinitive | the woman = woman not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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