The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 167
He would run after one and kill him, and all the others would shoot at him with their arrows, but they could not hurt him, and at last they left him and went back, and he went on and overtook the chief’s son.
Who acts: enemy, others · What happens: run, kill, shoot, not hurt, leave, go back · To what, where: enemy, last, son
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 (enemy, others), 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 | 3 run | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | aux |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 run | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kill | cc |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shoot | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shoot | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 others | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shoot | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 shoot | aux |
| 15 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shoot | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 arrows | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shoot | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hurt | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 hurt | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hurt | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 hurt | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 hurt | advmod |
| 26 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 run | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 hurt | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 left | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 left | cc |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 last | case |
| 31 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 left | obl |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 left | nsubj |
| 33 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | parataxis |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 left | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 went | cc |
| 36 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 left | conj |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 36 went | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 went | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 went | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 went | nsubj |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 left | parataxis |
| 42 | on | on | ADV | _ | 41 went | advmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 overtook | cc |
| 44 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 went | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 chief | det |
| 46 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 son | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 chief | case |
| 48 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 overtook | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | would | enemy | after one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | enemy not said here | enemy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shoot | would | all others | at enemy; with others's arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | not hurt | could | others = other | enemy | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | others = other | enemy | last | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 6 | go back | past | others = other not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | go on | past | enemy | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | overtake | past | enemy not said here | the chief's son | tree rules |
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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