The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 99
I know what the snakes are going to do, but our father will take care of us.”
Who acts: I, snakes, father · What happens: know, go, do, take · To what, where: care
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 (I, snakes, father), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 know | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snakes | det |
| 5 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 going | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 going | aux |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | conj |
| 16 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | the snakes | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the snakes not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | future | our father | care | of us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of we=Initial_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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