The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 121
He told them not to be anxious about him, and not to say anything about his having been away.
Who acts: boy · What happens: tell, not be, not say, be · To what, where: things, anything · 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), 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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 anxious | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 anxious | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 anxious | cop |
| 7 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | ccomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 anxious | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 say | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 say | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 told | conj |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 say | obj |
| 16 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 20 away | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 away | nmod:poss |
| 18 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 away | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 away | cop |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 anything | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | boy | things = thing | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not is not said to happen | to-infinitive | about boy; anxious property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | to-infinitive | boy not said here | anything | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund · perfect | boy nmod:poss; away 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.
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