The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 180
The poor boy rushed at this man and killed him with his club, and then ran back to his own line.
Who acts: poor boy · What happens: rush, kill, run back · To what, where: boy
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | nsubj |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 killed | cc |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 killed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 club | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 club | nmod:poss |
| 13 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ran | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 ran | advmod |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 ran | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 line | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 line | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 line | amod |
| 22 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the poor boy | at this man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at man=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | the poor boy not said here | boy | with boy's club | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with club=Instrument | |||
| 3 | run back | past | the poor boy not said here | then | to boy's own line result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to line=Result |
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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