The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 225

The poor boy cut a cottonwood pole and drove it into the ground, and tied the rope to it, and then tied the other end of the rope about his brother’s body.

Who acts: poor boy · What happens: cut, drive, tie · To what, where: cottonwood pole, pole, ground, rope, River, other end

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 (poor 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	3 boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pole	det
6	cottonwood	cottonwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pole	compound
7	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drove	cc
9	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drove	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drove	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tied	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tied	cc
16	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rope	det
18	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tied	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tied	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tied	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tied	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 tied	advmod
24	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 end	amod
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tied	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 rope	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rope	det
30	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 end	nmod
31	about	about	ADP	_	35 body	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brother	nmod:poss
33	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 body	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 brother	case
35	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tied	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	the poor boy	a cottonwood pole					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Product
2	drive	past	the poor boy not said here	pole		the ground			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme into ground=Trajectory
3	tie	past	the poor boy not said here	the rope	River				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to it=Co-Patient
4	tie	past	the poor boy not said here	the other end of the rope			then	about boy's brother's body	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 225

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 225