The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 102
The Bear said: “Now you see, my son, that the gun and the bow, the bullet and the arrow, cannot harm me.
Who acts: Bear, you, gun · What happens: say, see, not harm · To what, where: Bear · 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, you, gun), 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 | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 6 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 see | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | vocative |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 harm | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 harm | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gun | det |
| 15 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 harm | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bow | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bow | det |
| 18 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gun | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bullet | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bullet | det |
| 21 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gun | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 arrow | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 arrow | det |
| 24 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bullet | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gun | punct |
| 26 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 harm | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 harm | advmod |
| 28 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | conj |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 harm | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | you | now | my son vocative | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | not harm in a quote | can | the gun and the bow and the bullet and the arrow | the Bear = bear | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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