The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 139
There will be an end to my days as there is to those of every mortal.
Who acts: end · What happens: be
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 (end), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 days | nmod:poss |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 be | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 is | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 is | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mortal | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 mortal | det |
| 16 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 those | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | future | a end | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | present | a end not said here | there | to those of every mortal | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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