The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 17
I have been sent, and am here on purpose to get you and take you with me.”
What happens: send, be, get, take · To what, where: I, purpose, you
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Corn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 here | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 here | cc |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 here | cop |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 purpose | case |
| 10 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 here | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 get | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · perfect · passive | I | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | purpose | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | you | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=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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