The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 290
These boys went into the doctors’ lodge and said: “Doctors, you are the head doctors, but we have come to-night to visit you.
Who acts: boys, you, we · What happens: go, say, be, come, visit · To what, where: lodge, Doctors, head doctors, you · 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 (boys, you, we), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 lodge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 doctors | det |
| 6 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 6 doctors | case |
| 8 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Doctors | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Doctors | punct |
| 13 | Doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 doctors | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 doctors | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 doctors | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 doctors | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 doctors | compound |
| 19 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Doctors | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 come | cc |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 visit | mark |
| 29 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 come | advcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 visit | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | this boys | the doctors's lodge | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | this boys not said here | Doctors and the head doctors | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | the head doctors | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | we | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | visit in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
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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