The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 68
One afternoon an old widow woman called her into a poor little lodge and said: “I have great pity for you, and will do what I can to help you.
Who acts: old widow woman · What happens: call, say, have, do, help · To what, where: Su, poor little lodge, great pity, you · 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 (old widow 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 afternoon | nummod |
| 2 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 5 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | compound |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 lodge | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lodge | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lodge | amod |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lodge | amod |
| 13 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pity | amod |
| 21 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 have | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 do | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 do | cc |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 have | conj |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 do | obj |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 can | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 help | mark |
| 32 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 do | advcl |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 help | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | a old widow woman | Su | a poor little lodge | afternoon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic into lodge=Recipient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a old widow woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | a old widow woman = woman | great pity | for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | a old widow woman = woman not said here | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | a old widow woman = woman not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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