The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 138
It will be good for you to tell him to go away to his home, for now people do not like him.”
Who acts: It, you, people · What happens: be, tell, go away, not like · To what, where: Bluejay, home · 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 (It, you, people), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 good | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | csubj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 like | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 like | mark |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 like | advmod |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 like | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 like | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 like | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 like | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | It | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | you | Bluejay | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go away not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | Bluejay's home | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | not like | present · do-support | people | Bluejay | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=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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