The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 86
When they were ready to go home Ioí said to her brother: “You go down first, or else you will be talking a great deal.”
Who acts: stones, Ioí, brother · What happens: be, go, say, go down, talk · To what, where: brother, great deal · 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 (stones, Ioí, brother), 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 | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | Ioí | Ioí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 go | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 talking | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 talking | cc |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 25 talking | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 talking | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 talking | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 talking | aux |
| 25 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 go | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 deal | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 deal | amod |
| 28 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 talking | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | stones = stone | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | stones = stone not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Ioí | Ioí's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go down in a quote | present | Ioí's brother = brother | down, first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | talk in a quote | future · progressive | Ioí's brother = brother | a great deal | else property | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent deal=Patient |
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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