The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 261
The Hawk said: “My son, I give you power to run swiftly, and I give you my war-club, which is my wing.
Who acts: Hawk, son, war club · What happens: say, give, run, be · To what, where: power, you, war club, wing · 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 (Hawk, son, war club), 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 | 2 Hawk | det |
| 2 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 run | mark |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 power | acl |
| 15 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 give | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | nsubj |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 club | nmod:poss |
| 22 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 club | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 war | punct |
| 24 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wing | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 wing | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 wing | cop |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 wing | nmod:poss |
| 29 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 club | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Hawk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | present | My son | power | you | I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient power=Theme | ||
| 3 | run in a quote | to-infinitive | My son not said here | power not said here | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | present | the Hawk = hawk | my war club and my wing | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient club=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | my war club and my wing | my wing | my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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