The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 149
Then he said: “Now, my son, go to your people, and when you get home hang your bundle up at the back of the lodge, and let the people know nothing of all this.
Who acts: boy, son, you, people · What happens: say, go, get, hang up, let, know · To what, where: bundle, back, nothing · 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, son, you, people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 6 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Now | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 people | nmod:poss |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hang | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hang | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 get | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 get | nsubj |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hang | advcl |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 get | advmod |
| 21 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hang | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 hang | compound:prt |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 back | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 back | det |
| 27 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hang | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 lodge | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lodge | det |
| 30 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 back | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 let | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 let | cc |
| 33 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 people | det |
| 35 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 know | nsubj |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 let | ccomp |
| 37 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 36 know | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 this | case |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 this | det:predet |
| 40 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 nothing | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | boy | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | my son | now | to your people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to people=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | present | you | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | hang up in a quote | infinitive | my son not said here | your bundle | the back of the lodge | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme at back=Destination | |||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | know in a quote | present | the people | nothing of this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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