The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 134

The Bear said to him: “After you have gone home, whenever you smoke, always point your pipe towards my den and ask me to smoke with you.

Who acts: Bear, boy · What happens: say, go, smoke, point, ask · To what, where: boy, pipe, Bear · 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 (Bear, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bear	det
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct
8	After	after	SCONJ	_	11 gone	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 gone	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	aux
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 point	advcl
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 gone	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 smoke	punct
14	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 smoke	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 smoke	nsubj
16	smoke	smoke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 point	punct
18	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 point	advmod
19	point	point	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pipe	nmod:poss
21	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 point	obj
22	towards	towards	ADP	_	24 den	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 den	nmod:poss
24	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 point	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 ask	cc
26	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 point	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 ask	iobj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 smoke	mark
29	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ask	xcomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 smoke	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Bear		boy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	present · perfect	boy			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	smoke in a quote	present	boy			whenever property	vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	point in a quote	infinitive		your pipe		towards my den; always property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme towards den=Recipient
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive			the Bear = bear		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	smoke not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive				with boy	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with you=Instrument

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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 134