The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 197
All the people went out to meet them, but he stayed in his lodge and painted himself, and put his feather in his head and the bear-claw on his neck and his bear-skin on his back, and smoked as he always did, and took his club and went out.
Who acts: people, tribe · What happens: go out, meet, stay, paint, put, smoke · To what, where: people, lodge, tribe, feather, head, club
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, tribe), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stayed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 stayed | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stayed | nsubj |
| 12 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 lodge | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stayed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 painted | cc |
| 17 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stayed | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 painted | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 put | cc |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stayed | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feather | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 claw | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 claw | det |
| 29 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 claw | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 bear | punct |
| 31 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 neck | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 neck | nmod:poss |
| 34 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 skin | cc |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 skin | nmod:poss |
| 37 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 skin | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 bear | punct |
| 39 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 neck | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 back | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 back | nmod:poss |
| 42 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 skin | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 smoked | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 smoked | cc |
| 45 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stayed | conj |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 49 did | mark |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 did | nsubj |
| 48 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 49 did | advmod |
| 49 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 smoked | advcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 took | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 took | cc |
| 52 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 53 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 club | nmod:poss |
| 54 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 took | obj |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 went | cc |
| 56 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 took | conj |
| 57 | out | out | ADP | _ | 56 went | compound:prt |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | all people | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | all people not said here | people | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | tribe | tribe's lodge | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lodge=Location | ||||
| 4 | paint | past | tribe not said here | tribe | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | tribe not said here | tribe's feather | tribe's head and the bear claw | on tribe's neck and tribe's bear skin on tribe's back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme on neck=Destination | ||
| 6 | smoke | participle | tribe not said here | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | do | past | tribe | always property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | take | past | tribe's club | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=Theme | |||||
| 9 | go out | past | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=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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