The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 19
After she had thought about this for a long time, she went home and asked her husband to bring her a lot of sinews.
Who acts: wife · What happens: think, go, ask, bring · To what, where: husband, lot, wife
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 (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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 thought | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thought | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | xcomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lot | det |
| 23 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sinews | case |
| 25 | sinews | sinew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 lot | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · perfect | wife | time | about this | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about this=Topic | |||
| 2 | go | past | wife | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | wife not said here | wife's husband | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | wife not said here | a lot of sinews | wife | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination lot=Theme |
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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