The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 96
Let us each take a piece of rock and we will kill them.”
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: let, take, kill · To what, where: us, piece, snakes
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 (you, us, we), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 piece | det |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rock | case |
| 8 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kill | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kill | aux |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | us not said here | a piece of rock | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | future | we | snakes = snake | vn remove-10.1 «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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