The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 219
The girl was very pretty, and he liked her, but he felt that before he married there were still some things that he must do.
Who acts: girl, boy · What happens: be, like, feel, marry, do · To what, where: club, things
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 (girl, boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 liked | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pretty | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pretty | advmod |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 2 girl | acl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 liked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 liked | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 liked | nsubj |
| 9 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 liked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 felt | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 felt | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 felt | nsubj |
| 14 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 liked | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 married | mark |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 married | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 married | nsubj |
| 18 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 felt | advcl |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 were | expl |
| 20 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 married | conj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 things | advmod |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 things | det |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 married | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 do | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 do | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 do | aux |
| 27 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 things | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the girl not said here | pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like | past | the girl | club | boy nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | boy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | marry | past | boy | some things | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | be | past | boy not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | must | boy | some things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/219/