The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 12

He remembered how poor he and his father were, and how everybody looked down on them and despised them, and it did not seem to him that things would ever be any better for them than they were now.

Who acts: boy, everybody, it, things, people · What happens: remember, be, look down, despise, not seem · To what, where: people, boy · 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 (boy, everybody, it, things), 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 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remembered	ccomp
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 father	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 he	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looked	cc
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 looked	advmod
13	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 looked	nsubj
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	conj
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 looked	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 looked	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 despised	cc
19	despised	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remembered	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 despised	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seem	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seem	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seem	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 seem	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 seem	advmod
26	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remembered	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 seem	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 better	mark
30	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 better	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 better	aux
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 better	advmod
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 better	cop
34	any	any	ADV	_	35 better	advmod
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 seem	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 better	obl
38	than	than	SCONJ	_	41 now	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 now	nsubj
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 now	cop
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 better	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	boy					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	boy				poor property	tree rules
3	look down	past	everybody				on people	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=Theme
4	despise	past	boy not said here	people				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	not seem	past · do-support	it		boy			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	would	things			ever	for people; any, good property	tree rules
7	is	past	people				now property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/12/

🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 12