The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 55
He was afraid that the young man might give away all the meat, and he wanted to save this for their own lodge.
Who acts: man, young man · What happens: be, give away, want, save · To what, where: meat, this
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 (man, young 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | cop |
| 3 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 give | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 afraid | ccomp |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 give | advmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 meat | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meat | det |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wanted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wanted | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wanted | nsubj |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 afraid | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 save | mark |
| 19 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wanted | xcomp |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 save | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 lodge | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lodge | amod |
| 24 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 save | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give away | might | the young man | all meat | away property | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | |||
| 3 | want | past | man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | save not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | this | for pieces's own lodge | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent this=Theme for lodge=Source |
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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