The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 273
The Buffalo now stood up and said: “My son, I want to be with you always.
Who acts: Buffalo · What happens: stand up, say, want, be · 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 (Buffalo), 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 Buffalo | det |
| 2 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 stood | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 10 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 be | mark |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 want | xcomp |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 be | obl |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 be | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | the Buffalo | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Buffalo not said here | My son ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the Buffalo = buffalo | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Buffalo = buffalo not said here | with you; always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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