The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 100
The Bear now told the boy to take the bow and arrow and to shoot at him with all his strength.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: tell, take, shoot · To what, where: boy, bow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bear | det |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 take | mark |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bow | det |
| 10 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrow | cc |
| 12 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bow | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shoot | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 shoot | mark |
| 15 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shoot | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 strength | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 strength | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 strength | nmod:poss |
| 21 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoot | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Bear | the boy | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Bear not said here | the bow and arrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shoot | to-infinitive | the Bear not said here | at boy; with boy's strength | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at he=Destination |
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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