The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 303
My brother has gone into the animals’ lodge, and they have given him more power than I possess.”
Who acts: brother, brothers, I · What happens: go, give, possess · To what, where: lodge, more power, boy
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 (brother, brothers, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 lodge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animals | det |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 7 animals | case |
| 9 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 given | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 given | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gone | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | iobj |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 power | amod |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obj |
| 18 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 possess | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 possess | nsubj |
| 20 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | My brother | the animals's lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | give | present · perfect | brothers = brother | more power | boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient power=Theme | |||
| 3 | possess | present | I | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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