The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 16
They said, ‘Your granddaughter will not give you anything to eat.’”
Who acts: relations, granddaughter · What happens: say, ‘, not give, eat · To what, where: anything, 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 (relations, granddaughter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ‘ | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ‘ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 5 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 granddaughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | granddaughter | granddaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 give | advmod |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ‘ | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 give | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 anything | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ‘ | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ‘ | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | relations = relation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ‘ | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not give | future | Your granddaughter | anything | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Theme | |||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | Your granddaughter not said here | anything not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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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