The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 249
First the Beaver talked to the young man, to tell him of his powers and his ways, so that he might perform wonderful acts.
Who acts: Beaver, power · What happens: talk, tell, perform · To what, where: beaver, wonderful acts · 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 (Beaver, power), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 talked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Beaver | det |
| 3 | Beaver | Beaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | nsubj |
| 4 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 tell | mark |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 talked | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 tell | iobj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 powers | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 powers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tell | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ways | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ways | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 powers | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 perform | punct |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 24 perform | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 perform | nsubj |
| 23 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 perform | aux |
| 24 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | conj |
| 25 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 acts | amod |
| 26 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 perform | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the Beaver | to the young man; first property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | beaver | of beaver's powers and power's ways | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | perform | might | power | wonderful acts | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme |
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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