The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 115
I must look carefully, but I cannot see well if you are all crowding around me in this way.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: look, not see, crowd · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 look | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | aux |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 look | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 see | advmod |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 look | conj |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 see | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 crowding | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 crowding | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 crowding | aux |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 crowding | advmod |
| 16 | crowding | crowd | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 see | advcl |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 crowding | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 way | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crowding | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | must | I | carefully property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not see | can | I | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | crowd a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | you | this way | around me; all property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around i=Destination |
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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