The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 112
That day they stayed in the Bear’s lodge, and the Bear took the claw off from his little finger and gave it and a little bundle of medicine to the boy.
Who acts: bear · What happens: stay, take off, give · To what, where: lodge, claw, little finger, boy
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), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 lodge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bear | det |
| 7 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Bear | case |
| 9 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Bear | det |
| 13 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 claw | det |
| 16 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 finger | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 finger | nmod:poss |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 finger | amod |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bundle | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bundle | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bundle | amod |
| 28 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 medicine | case |
| 30 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bundle | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 boy | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 boy | det |
| 33 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | bear | the Bear's lodge | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lodge=Location | |||
| 2 | take off | past | the Bear | the claw | chief's little finger | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme from finger=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | give | past | the Bear not said here | claw | the boy | a little bundle of medicine conj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to boy=Recipient |
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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