The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 101
The boy did this, but the arrow did not go through the Bear, but the spike rolled up and the shaft was split.
Who acts: boy, arrow, spike · What happens: do, not go, roll up, split · To what, where: this, Bear, shaft
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 (boy, arrow, spike), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 arrow | det |
| 8 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | conj |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 Bear | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bear | det |
| 14 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rolled | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 rolled | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 spike | det |
| 18 | spike | spike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rolled | nsubj |
| 19 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 rolled | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 split | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shaft | det |
| 23 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 split | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 split | aux:pass |
| 25 | split | split | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rolled | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the boy | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not go | past · do-support | the arrow | the Bear | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through bear=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | roll up | participle | the spike | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | split | past · passive | the shaft | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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