The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 38

When you get back to your people give each one some of the seeds and tell him to put them in the ground; then they will make more.

Who acts: you, people, some · What happens: get back, give, one, tell, put, make · To what, where: father, people, ground, more · 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 (you, people, some), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 get	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 give	advcl
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 back	obl
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 people	nmod:poss
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 give	nsubj
8	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 one	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 seeds	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 seeds	det
14	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 some	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tell	cc
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 put	mark
19	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 make	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 make	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 make	aux
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 give	conj
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 make	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	get back	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	give	present	your people					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	one		some of the seeds					tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	your people not said here		father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	your people not said here	people		the ground		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in ground=Destination
6	make	future	people	more			then	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset more=Product

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 38