The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 257
Take him, and if you have an enemy among the doctors in your tribe, take this little one down to the water early in the morning and dip his nose in the water, and when you take it out it will have a piece of liver in its mouth.
Who acts: you, nose · What happens: take, have, dip, take out · To what, where: son, enemy, little one, water, nose, piece
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 (you, nose), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 take | cc |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | advcl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 enemy | det |
| 9 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 doctors | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doctors | det |
| 12 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tribe | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doctors | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 one | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 take | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 water | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 25 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 take | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 morning | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 morning | det |
| 28 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dip | cc |
| 30 | dip | dip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 nose | nmod:poss |
| 32 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dip | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 water | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 water | det |
| 35 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dip | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 have | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 have | cc |
| 38 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 take | advmod |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 take | nsubj |
| 40 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 have | advcl |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 take | obj |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 take | compound:prt |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 have | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 have | aux |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 piece | det |
| 47 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 have | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 liver | case |
| 49 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 piece | nmod |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 mouth | case |
| 51 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 52 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 have | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | son | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a enemy | among the doctors in your tribe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | infinitive | you not said here | this little one | the water | morning | down, early property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to water=Destination | |
| 4 | dip | infinitive | you not said here | son's nose | the water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nose=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | take out | present | you | nose | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | future | nose | a piece of liver | nose's mouth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
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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