The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 196
Some time after this all the different tribes that had been attacked by them joined forces and came down together to fight the Pawnees.
Who acts: people, different tribes · What happens: attack, join, come down, fight · To what, where: different tribes, forces, Pawnees
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 (people, different tribes), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 joined | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 tribes | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tribes | det |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tribes | amod |
| 8 | tribes | tribe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 joined | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 attacked | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 attacked | aux:pass |
| 12 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tribes | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 attacked | obl |
| 15 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 joined | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 joined | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 fight | mark |
| 22 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 came | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Pawnees | det |
| 24 | Pawnees | Pawnee | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 fight | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | past · perfect · passive | people | all different tribes | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | join | past | all different tribes | forces | time | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient | |||
| 3 | come down | past | all different tribes not said here | down, together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | all different tribes not said here | the Pawnees | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pawnee=Co-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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