The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 245
We must first send our messenger up to the Bear’s lodge to ask him what we may do for you.”
Who acts: We · What happens: send up, ask, do · To what, where: messenger, lodge, pool · 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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 send | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 send | aux |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 send | advmod |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 messenger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 send | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 lodge | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bear | det |
| 10 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Bear | case |
| 12 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ask | mark |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 send | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | obj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send up | must | We | our messenger | the Bear's lodge | first property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to lodge=Destination | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | We not said here | pool | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | may | we | for you; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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