The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 28
I do not want to swing you hard so as to bring the Buffalo in great herds.
Who acts: I · What happens: not want, swing, bring · To what, where: you, Buffalo, great herds
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), 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 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 swing | mark |
| 6 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 swing | obj |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 swing | advmod |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 bring | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Buffalo | det |
| 14 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 herds | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 herds | amod |
| 17 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bring | obl |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swing not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | hard property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme you=Result | |||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Buffalo | great herds | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument buffalo=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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