The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 175
Then he put the feather on his head and the little bear-robe on his back, and took his war-club in his hand and started out.
Who acts: boy · What happens: put, take, start out · To what, where: feather, head, war club, hand
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feather | det |
| 5 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 robe | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 robe | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 robe | amod |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 robe | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 bear | punct |
| 14 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 head | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 back | nmod:poss |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 club | nmod:poss |
| 22 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 club | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 war | punct |
| 24 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 started | cc |
| 29 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 started | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | boy | the feather | boy's head and the little bear robe | then | on boy's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme on head=Destination | |
| 2 | take | past | boy's war club | boy's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent club=Value in hand=Location | ||||
| 3 | start out | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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