The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 33

I wanted to see you, and that is why I gave you bad luck at the sticks, and why I sent my Wind to bring you here.

Who acts: I, that, my · What happens: want, see, be, give, send, bring · To what, where: you, bad luck, sticks, Wind

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 (I, that, my), 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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 why	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 why	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 why	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 why	cop
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 gave	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	advcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 luck	amod
15	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 sticks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sticks	det
18	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sent	cc
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 sent	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 sent	nsubj
23	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 Wind	nmod:poss
25	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 bring	mark
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sent	advcl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obj
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 bring	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	is	present	that				why property	tree rules
4	give	past	I	bad luck	you	the sticks		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient luck=Theme at stick=Asset
5	send	past	I	my Wind				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
6	bring	to-infinitive	I not said here		you	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
7	wind		my					nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 33