The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 13
For a long time he sat there thinking about all these things, and the more he thought of them the worse they seemed, and at last he felt that he was no longer glad to live, and he made up his mind to go up into those cedars.
Who acts: boy, things · What happens: sit, think, seem, feel, be, live · To what, where: last, mind, cedars · 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, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sat | advmod |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 sat | advcl |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 things | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 things | det:predet |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 things | det |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thinking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thought | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 more | det |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 thought | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 worse | det |
| 22 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seemed | nsubj |
| 24 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 worse | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 felt | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 felt | cc |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 last | case |
| 28 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 felt | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 felt | nsubj |
| 30 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thought | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 glad | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 glad | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 glad | cop |
| 34 | no | no | ADV | _ | 35 longer | advmod |
| 35 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 glad | advmod |
| 36 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 felt | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 live | mark |
| 38 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 glad | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 made | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 made | cc |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 made | nsubj |
| 42 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sat | conj |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 made | compound:prt |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 mind | nmod:poss |
| 45 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 made | obj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 go | mark |
| 47 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 made | advcl |
| 48 | up | up | ADV | _ | 47 go | advmod |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 cedars | case |
| 50 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 51 cedars | det |
| 51 | cedars | cedar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 go | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | boy | there | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | boy not said here | about all things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | boy | of things = thing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | things = thing | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | feel | past | boy | last | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | boy | glad, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | live | to-infinitive | boy not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | make up | past | boy | boy's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 9 | go up | to-infinitive | boy not said here | that cedars | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 10 | mind | boy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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