The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 199
Medicine Bear charged, and killed a man, and then came back, and the second time he charged, the people charged all together, following him, and they killed many and drove the enemy off, and those who had the fastest horses were the only ones who got away.
Who acts: Medicine Bear, man, people, those, only ones · What happens: charge, kill, come back, follow, drive off, have · To what, where: man, many, enemy, fastest horses, only ones
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 (Medicine Bear, man, people, those), 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 | Medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bear | compound |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charged | nsubj |
| 3 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 killed | cc |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 charged | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 charged | parataxis |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 charged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 charged | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 charged | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 charged | nsubj |
| 20 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 charged | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 charged | nsubj |
| 24 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 charged | conj |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 together | advmod |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 24 charged | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 following | punct |
| 28 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 charged | advcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 following | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 killed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 killed | cc |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 killed | nsubj |
| 33 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 charged | parataxis |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 killed | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 drove | cc |
| 36 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 killed | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 enemy | det |
| 38 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 drove | obj |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 drove | compound:prt |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 ones | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 ones | cc |
| 42 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 51 ones | nsubj |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 had | nsubj |
| 44 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 those | acl:relcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 horses | det |
| 46 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 47 horses | amod |
| 47 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 had | obj |
| 48 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 ones | cop |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 ones | det |
| 50 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 ones | amod |
| 51 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 charged | obl |
| 52 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 got | nsubj |
| 53 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 ones | acl:relcl |
| 54 | away | away | ADV | _ | 53 got | advmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | past | Medicine Bear | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | past | Medicine Bear not said here | a man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | charge | past | man | time | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | charge | past | the people | together property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | follow | gerund | the people not said here | man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | kill | past | people | many | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | ||||
| 8 | drive off | past | people not said here | the enemy | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme enemy=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | have | past | the fastest horses | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 10 | is a | past | those | the only ones | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | get away | past | the only ones | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «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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