The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 222
Medicine Bear told his brother to carry this bundle and a rawhide rope and a little hatchet, and they started on a journey towards the Missouri River.
Who acts: Medicine, brothers · What happens: tell, carry, start · To what, where: brother, bundle, 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 (Medicine, 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 | Medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Medicine | appos |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 carry | mark |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bundle | det |
| 9 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rope | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rope | det |
| 12 | rawhide | rawhide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rope | compound |
| 13 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bundle | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hatchet | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hatchet | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hatchet | amod |
| 17 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bundle | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 started | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 started | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 started | nsubj |
| 21 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 journey | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 journey | det |
| 24 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 started | obl |
| 25 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 28 River | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 River | det |
| 27 | Missouri | Missouri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 River | compound |
| 28 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 started | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Medicine | medicine's brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Medicine not said here | this bundle and a rawhide rope and a little hatchet | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | brothers = brother | a journey | towards the Missouri River | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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.
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