The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 113
He said, “Take this claw and this bundle of medicine and put them on a string and wear them on your neck always, the claw hanging in front.”
Who acts: chief, claw · What happens: say, take, put, wear, hang · To what, where: claw, bear, string, neck, front · 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 (chief, claw), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Take | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Take | punct |
| 5 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 claw | det |
| 7 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Take | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bundle | cc |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bundle | det |
| 10 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 claw | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 medicine | case |
| 12 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bundle | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 put | cc |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Take | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 put | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 string | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 string | det |
| 18 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wear | cc |
| 20 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Take | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wear | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 neck | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 neck | nmod:poss |
| 24 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wear | obl |
| 25 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 wear | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 claw | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 claw | det |
| 28 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wear | obl |
| 29 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 claw | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 front | case |
| 31 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hanging | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Take | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | this claw and this bundle of medicine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | infinitive | bear | a string | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on string=Destination | ||||
| 4 | wear in a quote | infinitive | bear | your neck | the claw obl; always property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | |||
| 5 | hang in a quote | gerund | the claw not said here | front | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |
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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