The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 221
His brother went hunting and killed a buffalo, and brought the meat home, and they dried it and made a bundle of it.
Who acts: brother, brothers · What happens: go, hunt, kill, bring, dry, make · To what, where: buffalo, meat, bundle
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 (brother, brothers), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 killed | cc |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 buffalo | det |
| 8 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brought | cc |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meat | det |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 brought | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dried | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dried | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dried | nsubj |
| 18 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dried | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dried | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bundle | det |
| 23 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bundle | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | boy's brother | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | boy's brother not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | past | boy's brother not said here | a buffalo | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | boy's brother not said here | the meat | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | |||
| 5 | dry | past | brothers = brother | buffalo | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | ||||
| 6 | make | past | brothers = brother not said here | a bundle of buffalo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bundle=Product |
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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