The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Stories and the Story-tellers, sentence 6
In transcribing stories such as these, care must be used to take down just what the narrator says.
Who acts: narrator · What happens: transcribe, use, take down, say · To what, where: stories, care · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Stories and the Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (narrator), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 transcribing | mark |
| 2 | transcribing | transcribe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 care | advcl |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 transcribing | obj |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 6 these | case |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 such | fixed |
| 6 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 stories | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 transcribing | punct |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 used | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 used | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 used | aux:pass |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 used | xcomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 take | compound:prt |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 what | advmod |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 says | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 narrator | det |
| 18 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 says | nsubj |
| 19 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transcribe | gerund | stories | such these | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | use | must · passive | care | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take down | to-infinitive | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the narrator | what obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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