The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 247

Our father the Bear told me to say to you that his son has sent this young man to you, and you must exert all your power for him.”

Who acts: father, you · What happens: tell, say, send, exert · To what, where: me, you, son, power · 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 (father, you), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bear	det
4	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 father	appos
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 say	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 sent	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	nsubj:pass
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sent	aux
15	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 say	ccomp
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 man	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 sent	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 exert	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 exert	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 exert	nsubj
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 exert	aux
25	exert	exert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	ccomp
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 power	det:predet
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 power	nmod:poss
28	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 exert	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 exert	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 exert	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 exert	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Our father		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Our father not said here		you		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to you=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	send	present · perfect · passive		father's son	you	this young man obj	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination man=Theme
4	exert	must	you	your power		for father	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent power=Theme for he=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 247

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 247