The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 14
Her husband had told her not to dig too deep in the ground, and for a long time she was careful, but one day she dug too deep and dug through that ground.
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: tell, not dig, be, dig · To what, where: husband, wife, deep, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 husband | nmod:poss |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 dig | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 dig | mark |
| 8 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 deep | advmod |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dig | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deep | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 careful | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 careful | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 careful | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 careful | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 careful | cop |
| 22 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dig | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dug | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 dug | cc |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 day | nummod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dug | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 dug | nsubj |
| 28 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | parataxis |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 deep | advmod |
| 30 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dug | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dug | cc |
| 32 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 dug | conj |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 ground | case |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 ground | det |
| 35 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dug | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | wife's husband | wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not dig not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife's husband not said here | deep in the ground | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent deep=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | wife | time | careful property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | dig | past | wife | day | deep property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | dig | participle | wife not said here | that ground | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent through ground=Location |
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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