The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 156
After they had reached their home, the boy told the chief’s son that he wanted him to go off with him on the war-path.
Who acts: Pawnees, boy, son · What happens: reach, tell, want, go off · To what, where: home, son, war path · 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 (Pawnees, boy, son), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 told | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 home | nmod:poss |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 chief | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | iobj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 wanted | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wanted | nsubj |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wanted | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wanted | xcomp |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 go | compound:prt |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 path | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 path | det |
| 26 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 path | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 war | punct |
| 28 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | Pawnees = pawnee | Pawnees's home | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the boy | the chief's son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | want | past | boy | son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go off not said to happen | to-infinitive | son not said here | the war path | with boy | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on path=Location |
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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