The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 270
They further told him that at this time they could teach him only a little, but that afterwards, one at a time, they would meet him out on the prairie, and would teach him more.
Who acts: kinds · What happens: tell, teach, meet out · To what, where: man, little, prairie · 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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | further | further | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 teach | mark |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teach | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 teach | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 teach | aux |
| 11 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 teach | obj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 little | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 teach | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 one | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 one | nsubj |
| 19 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 told | ccomp |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 time | det |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 meet | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 meet | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 meet | aux |
| 28 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 meet | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 meet | compound:prt |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 prairie | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 prairie | det |
| 33 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 meet | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 teach | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 teach | cc |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 teach | aux |
| 37 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 meet | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 teach | obj |
| 39 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 teach | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | kinds = kind | man | one that at a time ccomp; further property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | teach speech: other not said to happen | could | kinds = kind | a little | man | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||
| 3 | meet out | would | kinds = kind | man | the prairie | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | teach speech: other | would | kinds = kind not said here | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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