The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 226

Then he sharpened a stick and gave it to his brother and said: “Now take the bundle of meat, and I will let you down over the bank.

Who acts: boy · What happens: sharpen, give, say, take, let down · To what, where: stick, brother, bundle, you, bank · 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sharpened	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sharpened	nsubj
3	sharpened	sharpen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sharpened	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gave	cc
7	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sharpened	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gave	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 brother	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brother	nmod:poss
11	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gave	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sharpened	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
16	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 take	advmod
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bundle	det
19	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 meat	case
21	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bundle	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 let	aux
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 take	conj
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	down	down	ADP	_	26 let	compound:prt
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 bank	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bank	det
31	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 let	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sharpened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	sharpen	past	boy	a stick			then	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
2	give	past	boy not said here	stick	boy's brother			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to brother=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	boy not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	infinitive		the bundle of meat			now	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme
5	let down in a quote	future	boy	you		the bank		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 226

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 226