The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 215
In dreams the Bear said to him: “My son, you have done what I wished you to do.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: dream, say, do, wish · To what, where: father, son · 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 (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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 dreams | mark |
| 2 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bear | det |
| 4 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dreams | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 done | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 done | punct |
| 10 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 done | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 done | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | nsubj |
| 18 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 wished | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wished | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dreams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | present | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Bear | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect · passive | My son | you nsubj; what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | past | the Bear = bear | father | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Bear = bear not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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