The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 305
When the doctors’ dance was over, the two brothers at once started to go to the animals’ lodge, carrying with them tobacco and a pipe.
Who acts: dance, two brothers, doctors · What happens: be, start, go, carry, dance · To what, where: lodge, tobacco
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 (dance, two brothers, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 over | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doctors | det |
| 3 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dance | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 3 doctors | case |
| 5 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 over | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 over | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 started | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 over | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brothers | nummod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 started | nsubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 14 started | obl |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 started | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 lodge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 animals | det |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 19 animals | case |
| 21 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 carrying | punct |
| 23 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 go | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carrying | obl |
| 26 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 carrying | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pipe | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 pipe | det |
| 29 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tobacco | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the doctors's dance | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | past | the two brothers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | the two brothers not said here | the animals's lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the two brothers not said here | tobacco and a pipe | with brothers = brother | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tobacco=Theme | |||
| 5 | dance | the doctors | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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