The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 66
She could do nothing but cry and wish for death to take her.
Who acts: Su · What happens: do, cry, wish, take · To what, where: nothing, Su
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 (Su), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 cry | cc |
| 6 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 do | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wish | cc |
| 8 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cry | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wish | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wish | xcomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | Su | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | infinitive | Su not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wish | infinitive | Su not said here | for death | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Su not said here | Su | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
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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