The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 15
I told my relations that I was coming to ask you for food, and they have been laughing at me.
Who acts: I, relations · What happens: tell, come, ask, laugh · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, relations), 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 | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 relations | nmod:poss |
| 4 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 coming | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 coming | aux |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 coming | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | iobj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 food | case |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laughing | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laughing | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 laughing | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 laughing | aux |
| 19 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 laughing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | my relations | that nsubj; I nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | my relations not said here | you | for food | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 4 | laugh | present · perfect · progressive | relations = relation | at me | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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