The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 26
I do not want any dried meat—I want some fresh meat to take to my children.
Who acts: I, fresh meat · What happens: not want, dry, want, take · To what, where: dried meat, fresh meat
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, fresh meat), 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 | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 meat | det |
| 6 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 meat | amod |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 want | obj |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | parataxis |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 meat | det |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 meat | amod |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 want | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 want | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 children | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 take | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | present · do-support | I | any dried meat | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | want | present | I | some fresh meat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | some fresh meat not said here | to my children result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to child=Result |
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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