The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 267
For two days and two nights they taught him the different kinds of power, and for two days and two nights they taught him the different kinds of roots and herbs for healing the sick.
Who acts: kinds · What happens: teach, heal · To what, where: different kinds, man, sick
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 (kinds), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taught | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 nights | cc |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 nights | nummod |
| 6 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taught | nsubj |
| 8 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taught | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kinds | det |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kinds | amod |
| 12 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 taught | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 power | case |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kinds | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taught | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 taught | cc |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 days | nummod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 taught | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nights | cc |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 nights | nummod |
| 22 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 days | conj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 taught | nsubj |
| 24 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taught | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 taught | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 kinds | det |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 kinds | amod |
| 28 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 taught | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 roots | case |
| 30 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 kinds | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 herbs | cc |
| 32 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 roots | conj |
| 33 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 34 healing | mark |
| 34 | healing | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 taught | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sick | det |
| 36 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 healing | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past | kinds = kind | the different kinds of power | man | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kind=Topic | ||
| 2 | teach speech: other | past | kinds = kind | the different kinds of roots and herbs | man | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kind=Topic | ||
| 3 | heal | gerund | kinds = kind not said here | the sick | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sick=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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