The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 148
When this was done the Bear told him to put his paint, his feather, and his war-club in this hide, and to wrap them up and make a bundle of them.
Who acts: Bear, war club · What happens: do, tell, put, wrap up, make · To what, where: this, war club, boy, paint, bear, bundle · 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, war club), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 done | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 told | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bear | det |
| 6 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 paint | nmod:poss |
| 12 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feather | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feather | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paint | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 club | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 club | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 club | nmod:poss |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 club | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 war | punct |
| 21 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hide | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 hide | det |
| 24 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 club | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 wrap | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wrap | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 wrap | mark |
| 28 | wrap | wrap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | parataxis |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 wrap | obj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 wrap | compound:prt |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 make | cc |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 wrap | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bundle | det |
| 34 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 bundle | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Bear | boy's war club in this hide | boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy's war club in this hide not said here | boy's paint and boy's feather | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent paint=Goal | ||||
| 4 | wrap up | to-infinitive | bear | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | a bundle of bear | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bundle=Product |
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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