The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 62
Before long we are going to make peace with the Blackfeet and Piegans, and when that time comes we will give you back to your people.”
Who acts: we, time · What happens: go, make, come, give back · To what, where: peace, you
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 (we, time), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 long | case |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 give | advcl |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 long | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Blackfeet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Blackfeet | det |
| 11 | Blackfeet | blackfoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Piegans | cc |
| 13 | Piegans | Piegan | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Blackfeet | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 comes | mark |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comes | nsubj |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | advcl |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | back | back | ADP | _ | 22 give | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 people | nmod:poss |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 give | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | we | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | we not said here | peace | with the Blackfeet and Piegans | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | |||
| 3 | come | present | that time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give back | future | we | you | to your people | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to people=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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