The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 74
He told them that always when they killed buffalo they must bring the fattest and offer them to the Father.
Who acts: man, things · What happens: tell, kill, bring, offer · To what, where: things, buffalo, fattest, Father · 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, things), 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 | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 always | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 told | ccomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 killed | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | advcl |
| 9 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 killed | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fattest | det |
| 14 | fattest | fat | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 bring | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 offer | cc |
| 16 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bring | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 offer | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Father | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Father | det |
| 20 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 offer | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | man | things = thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | things = thing | buffalo | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | must | things = thing | the fattest | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | offer | infinitive | things = thing not said here | things = thing | the Father | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent they=Theme to father=Goal |
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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