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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 24

He said: “Yes, my relations laughed at me when I said I was going to visit you and ask you for something to eat.

Who acts: Coyote, relations · What happens: say, laugh, go, visit, ask, eat · 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 (Coyote, 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

nsubjpunctpunctdiscoursepunctnmod:possnsubjconjcaseobladvmodnsubjadvclnsubjauxccompmarkxcompobjccconjiobjcaseoblmarkaclpunctrootHePRONsaidVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTYesINTJ,PUNCTmyPRONrelationsNOUNlaughedVERBatADPmePRONwhenADVIPRONsaidVERBIPRONwasAUXgoingVERBtoPARTvisitVERByouPRONandCCONJaskVERByouPRONforADPsomethingPRONtoPARTeatVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 saidnsubj
2saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3::PUNCT_9 laughedpunct
4“"PUNCT_9 laughedpunct
5YesyesINTJPolarity=Pos9 laugheddiscourse
6,,PUNCT_5 Yespunct
7mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 relationsnmod:poss
8relationsrelationNOUNNumber=Plur9 laughednsubj
9laughedlaughVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 saidconj
10atatADP_11 mecase
11meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 laughedobl
12whenwhenADVPronType=Int14 saidadvmod
13IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 saidnsubj
14saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 laughedadvcl
15IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs17 goingnsubj
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 goingaux
17goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 saidccomp
18totoPART_19 visitmark
19visitvisitVERBVerbForm=Inf17 goingxcomp
20youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs19 visitobj
21andandCCONJ_22 askcc
22askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf19 visitconj
23youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs22 askiobj
24forforADP_25 somethingcase
25somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind22 askobl
26totoPART_27 eatmark
27eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf25 somethingacl
28..PUNCT_2 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastCoyotevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2laugh in a quotepastmy relationsat Coyotevn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3say speech: assert in a quotepastCoyotevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4go in a quotepast · progressiveCoyotevn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5visit in a quoteto-infinitiveCoyote not said hereyouvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
6ask speech: ask in a quoteinfinitiveCoyote not said hereyoufor somethingvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7eat in a quoteto-infinitiveCoyote not said herevn 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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