The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 206
After the excitement had quieted down, one day the head chief said: “Medicine Bear, in all this tribe there is no chief who is equal to you.
Who acts: head chief, chief · What happens: quiet down, say, be · To what, where: excitement, tribe, you · 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 (head chief, chief), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 quieted | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 excitement | det |
| 3 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quieted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quieted | aux |
| 5 | quieted | quiet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 quieted | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 quieted | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chief | compound |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bear | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Bear | punct |
| 16 | Medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bear | compound |
| 17 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tribe | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tribe | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 tribe | det:predet |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 tribe | det |
| 22 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bear | nmod |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 tribe | acl:relcl |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 chief | det |
| 26 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 is | nsubj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 equal | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 equal | cop |
| 29 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chief | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 equal | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quiet down | past · perfect · passive | the excitement | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the head chief | day | Medicine Bear in all tribe ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | no chief | all tribe not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tribe=Theme | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | no chief | you | equal property | tree rules |
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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