The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 250
How he should take the branch of a tree and strike a man with its point and it would go through him, and then how to draw it out and to make the man well again.
Who acts: power, branch · What happens: take, strike, go, draw out, make, point · To what, where: branch, man
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 (power, branch), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 take | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 branch | det |
| 6 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 branch | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 strike | cc |
| 11 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strike | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 point | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 point | nmod:poss |
| 16 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 draw | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 draw | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 draw | advmod |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 draw | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 draw | mark |
| 28 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 take | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 draw | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 draw | compound:prt |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 make | cc |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 make | mark |
| 33 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 draw | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 make | obj |
| 36 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 make | advmod |
| 37 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 make | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | should | power | the branch of a tree | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | present | power not said here | a man | with branch's point | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Patient with point=Instrument | |||
| 3 | go | would | branch | through power | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | draw out | to-infinitive | power not said here | branch | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | power not said here | the man | again | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product | ||
| 6 | point | branch | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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