The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 117
I have driven plenty of buffalo to this place, and the people will kill them and dry the meat.
Who acts: I, people · What happens: drive, kill, dry · To what, where: plenty, place, feelings, meat
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 (I, people), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 driven | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 driven | aux |
| 3 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driven | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 buffalo | case |
| 6 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plenty | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 driven | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kill | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 driven | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dry | cc |
| 18 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kill | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 meat | det |
| 20 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dry | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | present · perfect | I | plenty of buffalo | this place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme to place=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | kill | future | the people | feelings = feeling | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dry | infinitive | the people not said here | the meat | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient meat=Result |
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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