The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 144
He did not want to kill the little bear, but it said to him: “Go on, my brother, kill me.
Who acts: boy, shaft · What happens: not want, kill, say, go on · To what, where: little bear, boy, brother, shaft · 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, shaft), 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 | 4 want | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bear | amod |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kill | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 want | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Go | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Go | punct |
| 18 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 Go | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 brother | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kill | punct |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 Go | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 kill | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not want | past · do-support | boy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the little bear | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | shaft | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go on in a quote | infinitive | my brother | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | infinitive | shaft | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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