The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 106
When you are carrying these things your enemy cannot hurt you, even if you run right on to him; but with one stroke of this club you shall kill your enemy.”
Who acts: you, carrying · What happens: carry, not hurt, run, kill, stroke · To what, where: things, you, medicine, enemy, club
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, carrying), 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 | 4 carrying | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 carrying | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 carrying | aux |
| 4 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 hurt | csubj |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 things | det |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carrying | obj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 things | nmod |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hurt | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hurt | advmod |
| 11 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hurt | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 run | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 run | advmod |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 run | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 run | nsubj |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hurt | parataxis |
| 18 | right | right | ADV | _ | 19 on | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 run | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 run | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 kill | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 kill | cc |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 stroke | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 stroke | nummod |
| 26 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kill | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 club | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 club | det |
| 29 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stroke | nmod |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 kill | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 kill | aux |
| 32 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hurt | conj |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 34 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kill | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurt | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present · progressive | you | this things your enemy | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | can | carrying | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | run a condition, not said to happen | present | you | medicine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 4 | kill | shall | you | your enemy | with one stroke of this club | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient with stroke=Instrument | |||
| 5 | stroke | this club | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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