The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 173
He took down his bundle, filled the pipe, and pointed it first to Atíus, and then towards the Bear’s lodge, and smoked.
Who acts: boy · What happens: take down, fill, point, smoke · To what, where: bundle, pipe, Atíus
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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pipe | det |
| 9 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pointed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pointed | cc |
| 12 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pointed | obj |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 pointed | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Atíus | case |
| 16 | Atíus | Atíus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pointed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lodge | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lodge | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 lodge | advmod |
| 20 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 lodge | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bear | det |
| 22 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Bear | case |
| 24 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 smoked | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 smoked | cc |
| 27 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | past | boy | boy's bundle | the Bear's lodge parataxis | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | |||
| 2 | fill | past | boy not said here | the pipe | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pipe=Patient | ||||
| 3 | point | past | boy not said here | bundle | Atíus | first property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to atíus=Recipient | ||
| 4 | smoke | participle | boy not said here | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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