The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 220
He called his brother and said to him, “Go, kill the fattest of the buffalo; bring it to me, and I will take a long journey with you.”
Who acts: boy · What happens: call, say, go, kill, bring, take · To what, where: brother, boy, fattest, buffalo, long journey · 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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Go | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Go | punct |
| 11 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 kill | punct |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 Go | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fattest | det |
| 15 | fattest | fat | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 kill | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 buffalo | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 buffalo | det |
| 18 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fattest | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | parataxis |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 take | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 take | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 take | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 take | aux |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bring | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 journey | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 journey | amod |
| 31 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 take | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | boy | boy's brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | boy not said here | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | infinitive | the fattest of the buffalo | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bring in a quote | infinitive | buffalo | boy | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | future | boy | a long journey | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=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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