The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 238
The chief’s son stayed there all the night and all the next day, and for three days and nights, and on the night of the fourth day he fell asleep.
Who acts: son · What happens: stay, fall · To what, where: fourth day
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 (son), 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 | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 chief | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | nsubj |
| 5 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stayed | advmod |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 night | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 all | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 day | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 days | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 days | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stayed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 nights | cc |
| 21 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 days | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 night | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 night | cc |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 night | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 night | det |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 days | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 29 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 night | nmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fell | nsubj |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 day | acl:relcl |
| 33 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 fell | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the chief's son | there | day; night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | son | the fourth day not said here | asleep property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient day=Result |
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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