The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 116
He said: “Tell your father and mother not to mourn for you, for you will return in two days more.
Who acts: chief, you · What happens: say, tell, not mourn, return · To what, where: father, more · 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, you), 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 Tell | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tell | punct |
| 5 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tell | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mother | cc |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | conj |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 mourn | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 mourn | mark |
| 12 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Tell | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 mourn | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 return | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 return | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 return | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 return | aux |
| 19 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Tell | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 days | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 days | nummod |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 return | obl |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 return | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | 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 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | your father and mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | not mourn in a quote | to-infinitive | for you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for you=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | return in a quote | future | you | more | day | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme |
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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