The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 41
So the people will always have something to eat with their buffalo meat, and something to depend on if the buffalo fail.”
Who acts: people · What happens: have, eat, depend · To what, where: something
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 have | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 something | acl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 meat | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 meat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meat | compound |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 something | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 something | cc |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 eat | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 depend | mark |
| 18 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 something | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 fail | case |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 fail | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fail | det |
| 22 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fail | compound |
| 23 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 depend | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | the people | something | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | the people not said here | something not said here | with people's buffalo meat; something conj | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | depend | to-infinitive | the people not said here | something not said here | on the buffalo fail | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on fail=Theme |
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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