--- title: “No,” Front Wolf replied, “it is not that I do not love you; you may… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: “No,” Front Wolf replied, “it is not that I do not love you; you may go with me if you insist on it. Who acts: Front Wolf, journey, you. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/18/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/) / [Little Friend Coyote](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/18/) / 16 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 16 “No,” Front Wolf replied, “it is not that I do not love you; you may go with me if you insist on it. **Who acts:** Front Wolf, journey, you · **What happens:** reply, not be, go, insist · **To what, where:** journey · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Front Wolf, journey, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:18:16 # text = “No,” Front Wolf replied, “it is not that I do not love you; you may go with me if you insist on it. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 Front Front PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 insist insist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Front Wolf | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present · do-support | journey | | | | | I *nsubj*; you *obj*; love *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | may | you | | | | | with Front Wolf *= wolf* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with i=Beneficiary | | 4 | **insist** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | journey | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/18/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/18/17/) - ↑ back to [Little Friend Coyote](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/18/)