The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 295
The Bear boy got up first and began shooting at the chief’s son, just as he had done with the Bear, and all the doctors thought he was powerful, shooting at this young man and curing him.
Who acts: Bear boy, boy, doctors · What happens: get up, begin, shoot, do, think, be · To what, where: boy · 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 (Bear boy, boy, doctors), 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 | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | compound |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 got | compound:prt |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 got | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 9 | shooting | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 began | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 chief | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shooting | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 done | punct |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 done | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 shooting | advcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Bear | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Bear | det |
| 23 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 done | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 thought | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 thought | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 doctors | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 doctors | det |
| 28 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 thought | nsubj |
| 29 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | parataxis |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 powerful | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 powerful | cop |
| 32 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 thought | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 shooting | punct |
| 34 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 thought | conj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 man | case |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 man | det |
| 37 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 man | amod |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shooting | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 curing | cc |
| 40 | curing | cure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 shooting | conj |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 curing | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the Bear boy | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Bear boy not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shoot | gerund | the Bear boy not said here | at the chief's son | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at son=Destination | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | boy | with the Bear | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | all doctors | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | boy | powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | shoot | gerund | all doctors not said here | at this young man | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at man=Destination | ||||
| 8 | cure | gerund | all doctors not said here | boy | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source |
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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