The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 46
The Wind put the young man down, and he went into his father’s lodge and said, “Father, I am here”; but his father did not believe him, and said, “It is not you.”
Who acts: Wind, Father, lodge · What happens: put, go, say, be, not believe, not be · To what, where: young man, lodge, wind, you · 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 (Wind, Father, lodge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wind | det |
| 2 | Wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 lodge | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 father | case |
| 16 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Father | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Father | punct |
| 21 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 here | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 here | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 here | cop |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 Father | advmod |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 here | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 believe | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 believe | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 believe | nsubj |
| 31 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 believe | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 believe | advmod |
| 33 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 believe | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 said | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 said | cc |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 you | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 you | punct |
| 40 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 you | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 you | cop |
| 42 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 you | advmod |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 said | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the Wind | the young man | down property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Goal | |||
| 2 | go | past | wind | wind's father's lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Father | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not believe | past · do-support | wind's father | wind | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the Wind not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not is a in a quote | present | lodge | you | tree rules |
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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