The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 302
He ought to be the head doctor, for I am a warrior, and can never stay in the camp to doctor people.
Who acts: boy, I · What happens: be, not stay · To what, where: head doctor, camp
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, I), 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 | 7 doctor | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 doctor | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 doctor | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 doctor | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 doctor | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doctor | compound |
| 7 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 warrior | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 warrior | case |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 warrior | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 warrior | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 warrior | det |
| 13 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 doctor | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stay | cc |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stay | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 stay | advmod |
| 18 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 doctor | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 camp | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 camp | det |
| 21 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stay | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 people | mark |
| 23 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 people | compound |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stay | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 doctor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | ought | boy | the head doctor and a warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | for a warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not stay | can | boy not said here | the camp | doctor people advcl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location |
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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