The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 172
All the Pawnees went out to fight them, but the poor boy stayed behind in the lodge.
Who acts: Pawnees, poor boy · What happens: go out, fight, stay · To what, where: Pawnees, lodge
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, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 Pawnees | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pawnees | det |
| 3 | Pawnees | Pawnee | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fight | mark |
| 7 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fight | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stayed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stayed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boy | amod |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stayed | nsubj |
| 14 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 14 stayed | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lodge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lodge | det |
| 18 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stayed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | all Pawnees | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | all Pawnees not said here | Pawnees = pawnee | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | the poor boy | the lodge | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lodge=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/172/