The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 7
When he went home at night to his father’s lodge he told his relations what he had done, and his father said to him: “My son, for a long time you have been doing this, and I have many times spoken to you about it.
Who acts: man, father, relations · What happens: go, tell, do, say, have, speak · To what, where: lodge, relations, man, this, many times · 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 (man, father, relations), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lodge | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 relations | nmod:poss |
| 15 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 told | iobj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 done | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 relations | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 son | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 son | punct |
| 29 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | ccomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 time | punct |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 time | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 time | amod |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 son | appos |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 doing | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 doing | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 doing | aux |
| 39 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 time | acl:relcl |
| 40 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 doing | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 have | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 have | cc |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 have | nsubj |
| 44 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | conj |
| 45 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 times | amod |
| 46 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 have | obj |
| 47 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 times | acl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 you | case |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 spoken | obl |
| 50 | about | about | ADP | _ | 51 it | case |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 spoken | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | man's father's lodge | night | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | man | man's relations | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent relation=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | man | man's relations | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man's father | man | My son ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | man's relations = relation | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | man | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | speak speech: other in a quote | participle | many times not said here | man's relations = relation | about lodge | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent about it=Topic |
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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