The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 118
Now go to the camp and get a pipe and some tobacco, and bring them here.”
Who acts: you · What happens: go, get, bring · To what, where: camp, pipe
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 camp | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 camp | det |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 go | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pipe | det |
| 9 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tobacco | cc |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 tobacco | det |
| 12 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pipe | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bring | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bring | cc |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bring | obj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 bring | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the camp | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | get | infinitive | you not said here | a pipe and some tobacco | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pipe=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | pipe | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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