The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 21
As the boy stood there looking at her, the she-bear said to him: “I am sorry that you have come here.
Who acts: boy, she bear · What happens: stand, look, say, be, come · To what, where: boy · 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 (boy, she bear), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 stood | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stood | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looking | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bear | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 she | punct |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorry | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorry | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 sorry | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sorry | cop |
| 21 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 come | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 sorry | ccomp |
| 26 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the boy | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the boy not said here | at hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the she bear | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the she bear = bear | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present · perfect | boy | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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