The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 244
The chief of the animals spoke to him, saying: “My son, at this time we can do nothing for you.
Who acts: chief, we · What happens: speak, say, do · To what, where: pool, nothing · 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 (chief, we), 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 | 6 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 animals | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animals | det |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chief | nmod |
| 6 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spoke | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 spoke | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saying | vocative |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 do | obl |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the chief of the animals | pool | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the chief of the animals not said here | My son vocative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | we | nothing | time | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
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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