The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 34

Your people are very hungry now because they can find no buffalo, but I am going to give you something on which you can live, even when the buffalo fail.”

Who acts: people, I, you · What happens: be, find, go, give, live · To what, where: buffalo, something, 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: who acts (people, I, you), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 people	nmod:poss
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hungry	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 hungry	advmod
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hungry	advmod
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 find	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 find	aux
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hungry	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 buffalo	det
12	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 going	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 going	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hungry	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 give	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 live	obl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 live	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 live	aux
26	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 something	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fail	punct
28	even	even	ADV	_	32 fail	advmod
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 fail	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fail	det
31	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fail	compound
32	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your people			now	hungry property	tree rules
2	find	can	people	no buffalo				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Topic
3	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	something	you		the buffalo fail obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme
5	live	can	you				which obl	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location

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 34