The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 306
When they got there, the chief’s son told his brother to wait on the bank, that he was going down to take the tobacco and the pipe to his fathers.
Who acts: dances, son · What happens: get, tell, wait, go down, take · To what, where: brother, bank, tobacco, fathers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dances, son), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | advcl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 chief | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wait | mark |
| 14 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | xcomp |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 bank | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bank | det |
| 17 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wait | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 going | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 going | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 told | ccomp |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 going | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 take | mark |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 going | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tobacco | det |
| 27 | tobacco | tobacco | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pipe | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pipe | det |
| 30 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tobacco | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 fathers | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 take | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | dances = dance | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the chief's son | son's brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chief's son not said here | the bank | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location | ||||
| 4 | go down | past · progressive | son | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | son not said here | the tobacco and the pipe | son's fathers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tobacco=Theme to father=Destination |
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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