The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 30
The Wind told the young man, “These are all waiters on the Father.”
Who acts: Wind, These · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: young man, waiters · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Wind, These), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wind | det |
| 2 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 waiters | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 waiters | punct |
| 9 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 waiters | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 waiters | cop |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 waiters | advmod |
| 12 | waiters | waiter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Father | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Father | det |
| 15 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 waiters | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Wind | the young man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | These | waiters | on the Father; all property | tree rules |
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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