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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

advmodnsubjadvcladvmodcaseoblcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblnsubjnmod:possiobjobjnsubjauxacl:relclpunctccnmod:possnsubjconjcaseoblpunctpunctnmod:possccomppunctcasedetamodapposnsubjauxauxacl:relclobjpunctccnsubjconjamodobjaclcaseoblcaseoblpunctrootWhenADVhePRONwentVERBhomeADVatADPnightNOUNtoADPhisPRONfatherNOUN’sPARTlodgeNOUNhePRONtoldVERBhisPRONrelationsNOUNwhatPRONhePRONhadAUXdoneVERB,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONfatherNOUNsaidVERBtoADPhimPRON:PUNCT“PUNCTMyPRONsonNOUN,PUNCTforADPaDETlongADJtimeNOUNyouPRONhaveAUXbeenAUXdoingVERBthisPRON,PUNCTandCCONJIPRONhaveVERBmanyADJtimesNOUNspokenVERBtoADPyouPRONaboutADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 wentadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wentnsubj
3wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 toldadvcl
4homehomeADV_3 wentadvmod
5atatADP_6 nightcase
6nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing3 wentobl
7totoADP_11 lodgecase
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 fathernmod:poss
9fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing11 lodgenmod:poss
10’s'sPART_9 fathercase
11lodgelodgeNOUNNumber=Sing3 wentobl
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 toldnsubj
13toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 relationsnmod:poss
15relationsrelationNOUNNumber=Plur13 toldiobj
16whatwhatPRONPronType=Int19 doneobj
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 donensubj
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 doneaux
19donedoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part15 relationsacl:relcl
20,,PUNCT_24 saidpunct
21andandCCONJ_24 saidcc
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 fathernmod:poss
23fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing24 saidnsubj
24saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 toldconj
25totoADP_26 himcase
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 saidobl
27::PUNCT_30 sonpunct
28“"PUNCT_30 sonpunct
29MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 sonnmod:poss
30sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing24 saidccomp
31,,PUNCT_35 timepunct
32forforADP_35 timecase
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art35 timedet
34longlongADJDegree=Pos35 timeamod
35timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing30 sonappos
36youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs39 doingnsubj
37havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 doingaux
38beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part39 doingaux
39doingdoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part35 timeacl:relcl
40thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem39 doingobj
41,,PUNCT_44 havepunct
42andandCCONJ_44 havecc
43IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs44 havensubj
44havehaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 toldconj
45manymanyADJDegree=Pos46 timesamod
46timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur44 haveobj
47spokenspeakVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass46 timesacl
48totoADP_49 youcase
49youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs47 spokenobl
50aboutaboutADP_51 itcase
51ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs47 spokenobl
52..PUNCT_13 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastmanman's father's lodgenighthome propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location
2tell speech: assertpastmanman's relationsvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent relation=Recipient
3dopast · perfectmanman's relationsvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4say speech: assertpastman's fathermanMy son ccompvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5do in a quotepresent · perfect · progressiveman's relations = relationthisvn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
6have in a quotepresentmantimevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7speak speech: other in a quoteparticiplemany times not said hereman's relations = relationabout lodgevn 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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