The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 4
His father had often scolded him about gambling, and had told him that he ought to stop it.
Who acts: father, man · What happens: scold, tell, stop · To what, where: man, gambling · 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 (father, man), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scolded | aux |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 scolded | advmod |
| 5 | scolded | scold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scolded | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 gambling | case |
| 8 | gambling | gambling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scolded | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 scolded | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 stop | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stop | nsubj |
| 16 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stop | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stop | mark |
| 18 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stop | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scolded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scold | past · perfect | man's father | man | about gambling; often property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | man's father not said here | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stop | ought | man | gambling | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
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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