The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 18
Let us eat all of it, and not take any of it home with us.”
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, eat, not take · To what, where: us, all, any
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, us), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 eat | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 all | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 eat | conj |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 any | nmod |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 take | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | us not said here | all of fire | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not take | infinitive | us not said here | any of fire | with us; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
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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