The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 104
When you go into battle you shall not carry a gun nor arrows, for they are not mine, but you shall take this paint, and put it all over your body, then put this feather on your head, and take this club, which is part of my jawbone.
Who acts: you, guns, club · What happens: go, not carry, not be, take, put, be · To what, where: battle, gun, mine, paint, body, feather
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 (you, guns, club), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 carry | advcl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 battle | case |
| 5 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 7 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 carry | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 carry | advmod |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gun | det |
| 11 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obj |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 arrows | cc |
| 13 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gun | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mine | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 mine | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mine | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mine | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 mine | advmod |
| 19 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 carry | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 take | cc |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 carry | conj |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 paint | det |
| 26 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 put | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 put | cc |
| 29 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 take | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 put | obj |
| 31 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 body | advmod |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 body | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 body | nmod:poss |
| 34 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 put | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 put | punct |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 put | advmod |
| 37 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 put | conj |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 feather | det |
| 39 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 put | obj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 head | case |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 head | nmod:poss |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 put | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 take | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 take | cc |
| 45 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 carry | conj |
| 46 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 club | det |
| 47 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 take | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 part | punct |
| 49 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 part | nsubj |
| 50 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 part | cop |
| 51 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 club | appos |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 jawbone | case |
| 53 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 jawbone | nmod:poss |
| 54 | jawbone | jawbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 part | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | battle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into battle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not carry | shall | you | a gun nor arrows | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | guns = gun | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | shall | you | this paint | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | you not said here | paint | your body | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over body=Destination | |||
| 6 | put | infinitive | you not said here | this feather | your head | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme on head=Destination | ||
| 7 | take | infinitive | you not said here | this club | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is a | present | this club | part | of my jawbone | tree rules |
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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