The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 10
At last he asked a Wedge, and the Wedge said, “If you will pay me, I will carry you there.”
Who acts: Bluejay, Wedge, you · What happens: ask, say, pay, carry · To what, where: Wedge, last, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bluejay, Wedge, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Wedge | det |
| 6 | Wedge | wedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Wedge | det |
| 10 | Wedge | Wedge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
| 14 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 pay | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 pay | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pay | aux |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 carry | advcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 pay | iobj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pay | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 carry | aux |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | obj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 carry | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Bluejay | a Wedge | last | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wedge=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Wedge | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | the Wedge = wedge | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | future | the Wedge = wedge | you | there | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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