The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 39
These things are good to eat, but the first year do not let the people eat them; let them put the yield away, and the next year again put it in the ground.
Who acts: things, people · What happens: be, eat, not let, let, put away, put · To what, where: things, people, yield, ground
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 (things, people), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 good | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | cop |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 year | amod |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 let | advmod |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eat | nsubj |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 good | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 yield | det |
| 24 | yield | yield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 put | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 year | det |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 year | amod |
| 30 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 put | advmod |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 good | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 put | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 ground | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ground | det |
| 36 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this things | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | this things not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not let | present · do-support | year | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | present | the people | things = thing | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | this things not said here | people | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | put away | infinitive | people not said here | the yield | away property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yield=Goal | |||
| 7 | put | past | this things not said here | yield | the ground | again; year | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in ground=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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