--- title: Su-yé-sai-pi clung to him and cried and begged, but her husband hims… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: Su-yé-sai-pi clung to him and cried and begged, but her husband himself put her from him and went out, saying to her a last kind word. Who acts: husband. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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:pg66596:18:49 # text = Su-yé-sai-pi clung to him and cried and begged, but her husband himself put her from him and went out, saying to her a last kind word. 1 Su Su PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 yé yé NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 sai sai NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 pi pi NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 clung cling VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 18 nmod:unmarked _ _ 20 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 out out ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 33 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cling** | participle | | sai pi Su yé *not said here* | yé | | | | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put** | past | Su's husband yé | | Su | | | from yé | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal | | 5 | **go out** | past | Su's husband yé *not said here* | | | | | | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Su's husband yé *not said here* | a last kind word | Su | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to she=Recipient | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/18/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/18/50/) - ↑ back to [Little Friend Coyote](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/18/)