The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 189

The Bear had told him that when he wanted his name changed he must call himself Ku ruks la war´ uks ti, Medicine Bear.

Who acts: man, name, Ku · What happens: tell, want, change, call, ruk, name · To what, where: Bear, man, war · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, name, Ku), 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	2 Bear	det
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 wanted	mark
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 wanted	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 name	nmod:poss
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changed	nsubj
12	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 call	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 call	aux
15	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 changed	ccomp
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 call	obj
17	Ku	Ku	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ruks	nsubj
18	ruks	ruk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 call	parataxis
19	la	la	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 war	det
20	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ruks	obj
21	´	´	ADP	_	22 uks	case
22	uks	uk	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 war	nmod
23	ti	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	20 war	nmod:unmarked
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Bear	punct
25	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Bear	compound
26	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 call	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the Bear	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
2	want	past	man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	change	past	man's name				tree rules
4	call speech: assert	must	man	man		Medicine Bear obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
5	ruk	present	Ku	la war ti		´ uks	tree rules
6	name		man				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 189

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 189