The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 297

He would take a long sharp stick and thrust it through his brother, and then heal him again, and then take a knife and stab him, and then cure him.

Who acts: boy, stick · What happens: take, stick, heal, stab, cure · To what, where: boy, knife

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 (boy, stick), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stick	amod
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stick	amod
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thrust	cc
9	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stick	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stick	nsubj
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 brother	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brother	nmod:poss
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heal	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heal	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 heal	advmod
17	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heal	obj
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 heal	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 take	advmod
23	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 take	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 knife	det
25	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stab	cc
27	stab	stab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 take	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stab	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cure	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cure	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 cure	advmod
32	cure	cure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 take	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cure	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	boy			through boy's brother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stick		stick			thrust conj	tree rules
3	heal	infinitive	boy not said here	boy	then; again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	take	infinitive		a knife	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
5	stab	infinitive		boy			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	cure	infinitive		boy	then		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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 297

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 297