The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 166
When you find sea-lions you shall always kill them, but do not give any of them to stingy people.
Who acts: you · What happens: find, kill, not give · To what, where: sea lions, lions, any, stingy people
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 find | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 kill | advcl |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lions | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 sea | punct |
| 6 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 find | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 kill | aux |
| 9 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 kill | advmod |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 give | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 give | cc |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 give | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 give | advmod |
| 16 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 kill | conj |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 give | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 any | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 people | case |
| 21 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 people | amod |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | you | sea lions | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kill | shall | you | lions = lion | always property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | not give | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | any of lions | stingy people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent any=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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