The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 66
We will not tell any one, for fear that our Chief’s son should want to come with us.”
Who acts: We, son, fear · What happens: not tell, want, come · To what, where: one, fear · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, son, fear), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fear | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fear | case |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | obl |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 want | obj |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Chief | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 want | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 want | aux |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fear | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 want | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | future | We | any one | for fear | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | |||
| 2 | want | should | our son | fear | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | fear not said here | with us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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