The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 266
Each of the other animals gave him all his kinds of power.
Who acts: Each · What happens: give · To what, where: kinds, 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 (Each), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 animals | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animals | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Each | nmod |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 kinds | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kinds | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kinds | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Each of the other animals | man's kinds of power | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kind=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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