The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 144
She answered him: “It comes because you have asked them to come.”
Who acts: sister, canoe, bundle · What happens: answer, come, ask · To what, where: bundle, Bluejay · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay, the Imitator. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, canoe, bundle), 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 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 comes | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 comes | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 asked | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | aux |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 comes | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 comes | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | sister | bundle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | canoe | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present · perfect | bundle | Bluejay | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | bundle not said here | 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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