The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 304
So the chief’s son was chosen to be the head doctor.
What happens: choose, be · To what, where: son, head doctor
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: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 chosen | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 chief | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 chosen | aux:pass |
| 7 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 doctor | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 doctor | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doctor | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 doctor | compound |
| 12 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chosen | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past · passive | the chief's son | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the head doctor | tree rules |
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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