The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 60
He was pleased with these branches, and said to himself, “I will take these back to Ioí; she can use them to build her fire.”
Who acts: boy, noise · What happens: be, say, take, use, build, fire · To what, where: boy, back, Ioí, branches, fire · 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 (boy, noise), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | cop |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 branches | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 branches | det |
| 6 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pleased | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pleased | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 back | det |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Ioí | case |
| 20 | Ioí | Ioí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 use | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 use | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 use | aux |
| 24 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pleased | parataxis |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 use | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 build | mark |
| 27 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 use | advcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fire | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 build | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | boy | with this branches; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | boy not said here | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | future | boy | this back | Ioí | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to ioí=Destination | |||
| 4 | use in a quote | can | noise | branches = branch | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | build in a quote | to-infinitive | noise not said here | noise's fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 6 | fire in a quote | noise | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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