The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 75
She kissed her new friend, and when she could speak she said that she would try to get away that night.
Who acts: kindness · What happens: kiss, speak, say, try, get away · To what, where: new friend · 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 (kindness), 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 | 2 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kissed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 speak | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 speak | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 speak | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 speak | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 speak | aux |
| 11 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kissed | parataxis |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 speak | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 try | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 try | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 try | aux |
| 17 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 try | xcomp |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | kindness | kindness's new friend | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | could | kindness | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | kindness | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | try | would | kindness | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | get away not said to happen | to-infinitive | kindness not said here | night | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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