The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 26
The poor boy said: “Well, I came here on purpose to be killed, and I give myself up to you.
Who acts: poor boy · What happens: say, come, kill, give up · To what, where: purpose, poor boy · 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 (poor boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 came | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Well | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 purpose | case |
| 13 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 killed | aux:pass |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 came | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 give | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 give | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the poor boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | the poor boy = boy | purpose; here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location | ||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the poor boy = boy not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | give up in a quote | present | the poor boy = boy | the poor boy = boy | to you | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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