The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 183
He ran among the enemy, and with his club killed one here and one there, and the enemy became afraid and ran, and the Pawnees followed and killed many of them.
Who acts: son, club, enemy, Pawnees · What happens: run, kill, become, follow · To what, where: enemy, one, many
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 (son, club, enemy, Pawnees), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 enemy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 enemy | det |
| 5 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 killed | cc |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 killed | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 club | nmod:poss |
| 10 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | nsubj |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 killed | obj |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 one | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 one | conj |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 one | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 became | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 became | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 enemy | det |
| 20 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 became | nsubj |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 22 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 became | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ran | cc |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 became | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 followed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 followed | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Pawnees | det |
| 28 | Pawnees | Pawnee | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 followed | nsubj |
| 29 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 killed | cc |
| 31 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 followed | conj |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 killed | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 many | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | son | the enemy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among enemy=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | son's club | one | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the enemy | afraid property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | run | past | the enemy not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow | past | the Pawnees | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | kill | past | the Pawnees not said here | many of Pawnees | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme |
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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