The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 163
Then the poor boy got off his horse and stopped, telling his brother to go on, driving the horses.
Who acts: poor boy · What happens: get off, stop, tell, go on, drive · To what, where: horse, brother, horses · 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 (poor 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stopped | cc |
| 10 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 telling | punct |
| 12 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 stopped | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 telling | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 telling | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 driving | punct |
| 19 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 telling | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horses | det |
| 21 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 driving | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past | the poor boy | boy's horse | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | stop | past | the poor boy not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the poor boy not said here | boy's brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go on not said to happen | to-infinitive | the poor boy not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drive | gerund | the poor boy not said here | the horses | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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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