The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 107

The next morning the Bear took the boy out on the prairie and showed him the different roots and leaves of medicines, and told him how to use them; how he should eat some medicine and then he could cure the wounded by just breathing on the wound.

Who acts: Bear, medicine · What happens: take out, show, tell, use, eat, cure · To what, where: boy, prairie, different roots, medicine, roots, wound · 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, medicine), 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	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bear	det
5	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 took	compound:prt
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 prairie	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prairie	det
12	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 showed	cc
14	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 showed	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roots	det
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 roots	amod
18	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 showed	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 leaves	cc
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 roots	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 medicines	case
22	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 leaves	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 took	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	29 use	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 use	mark
29	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	xcomp
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 use	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 eat	punct
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 eat	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eat	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 eat	aux
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	parataxis
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 medicine	det
37	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eat	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 cure	cc
39	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 cure	advmod
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 cure	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 cure	aux
42	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 eat	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 wounded	det
44	wounded	wound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 cure	xcomp
45	by	by	SCONJ	_	47 breathing	mark
46	just	just	ADV	_	47 breathing	advmod
47	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 cure	advcl
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 wound	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 wound	det
50	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 breathing	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	take out	past	the Bear	the boy		the prairie	morning	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme
2	show	past	the Bear not said here	the different roots and leaves of medicines	boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient root=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	the Bear not said here		medicine			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Bear not said here	roots = root				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	eat	should	medicine	some medicine				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient
6	cure	could	medicine				then	tree rules
7	wound	participle	medicine not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	breathe	gerund	medicine not said here			the wound		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on wound=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 107