The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 228
Give a piece to the first one that comes, and then take your sharp stick and get another piece, and so feed all the birds.
Who acts: you, first one · What happens: give, come, take, get, feed · To what, where: piece, first one, sharp stick, birds
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 (you, first one), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 take | advmod |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 stick | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stick | amod |
| 16 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | conj |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 piece | det |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 feed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 feed | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 feed | advmod |
| 24 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 birds | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 birds | det |
| 27 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 feed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | a piece | the first one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to one=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | present | the first one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | your sharp stick | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | infinitive | another piece | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | feed | infinitive | you not said here | all birds | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient |
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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