The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 61
“You are too young to die yet,” he said; “and, besides, we do not kill women.
Who acts: You, husband, we · What happens: be, die, say, not kill · To what, where: women · 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, husband, we), 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 | _ | 5 young | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 young | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 young | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 young | advmod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 young | csubj |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 die | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 young | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 young | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 kill | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 kill | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kill | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 22 kill | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 besides | punct |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 kill | advmod |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kill | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | yet | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not kill in a quote | present · do-support | we | women | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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