The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 152
The boy went home to the camp, and told his mother to hang up his bundle, as the Bear had said.
Who acts: boy · What happens: go, tell, hang up, say · To what, where: camp, mother, bundle, 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 (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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 camp | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 camp | det |
| 7 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hang | mark |
| 14 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | xcomp |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 hang | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hang | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 said | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bear | det |
| 21 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 told | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the boy | the camp | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | boy's mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hang up not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy's bundle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the Bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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