The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 237
When Medicine Bear had done this, he started back and went home, leaving the chief’s son hanging there.
Who acts: Medicine · What happens: do, start back, go, leave, hang · To what, where: this, son
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 done | advmod |
| 2 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 done | nsubj |
| 3 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Medicine | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 started | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 started | nsubj |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 started | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 started | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leaving | punct |
| 15 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 chief | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leaving | obj |
| 20 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 leaving | conj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 hanging | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | Medicine | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | start back | past | medicine | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | past | medicine not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | medicine not said here | the chief's son | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hang | gerund | medicine not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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