The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 47
“If it is a girl,” the old woman said, “she will take them.”
Who acts: grandson, old woman, woman · What happens: be, say, take · To what, where: girl, girls · 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 (grandson, old woman, woman), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 girl | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 girl | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | grandson | a girl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | future | woman | girls = girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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