The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 165
He held his war-club in his hand, and had his feather tied on his head and the little bear-skin on his back.
Who acts: boy · What happens: hold, have, tie · To what, where: war club, hand, feather
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 club | nmod:poss |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 club | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 war | punct |
| 6 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feather | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 feather | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tied | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 skin | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 skin | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 skin | amod |
| 22 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skin | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 bear | punct |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 back | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 back | nmod:poss |
| 27 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skin | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | boy | boy's war club | boy's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent club=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | boy not said here | boy's feather | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tie | participle | boy's feather not said here | on boy's head and the little bear skin on boy's back | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on head=Co-Patient |
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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