The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 277
Each one of the birds took off a feather and put it on the robe, and each animal put one of its claws on it, and some put medicine on it.
Who acts: one, animal, some · What happens: take off, put · To what, where: feather, robe, one, medicine
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 (one, animal, some), 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 | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 birds | det |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 took | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feather | det |
| 9 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 robe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 robe | det |
| 15 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 animal | det |
| 19 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 put | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 claws | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 claws | nmod:poss |
| 24 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 claws | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 put | nsubj |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | parataxis |
| 31 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | each one of the birds | a feather | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | each one of the birds not said here | feather | the robe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on robe=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | past | each animal | one of robe's claws on robe | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal | ||||
| 4 | put | present | some | medicine | robe | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme on it=Destination |
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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