The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 59
I beg you to kill me, so I may join my husband.”
Who acts: I · What happens: beg, kill, join · To what, where: you, me, husband
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 beg | nsubj |
| 2 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 beg | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 kill | mark |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beg | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 join | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 join | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 join | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 join | aux |
| 11 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beg | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 join | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | I | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | join | may | I | my husband | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
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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