The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 31
The she-bear said: “Oh, I wish I could do something to save you, but I cannot.
Who acts: she bear · What happens: say, wish, do, save · To what, where: something, you · 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 (she bear), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bear | det |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 she | punct |
| 4 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wish | punct |
| 8 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 wish | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Oh | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wish | ccomp |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 save | mark |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 something | acl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 save | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 can | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 can | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 can | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wish | conj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 can | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the she bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | the she bear = bear | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | could | the she bear = bear | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | save in a quote | to-infinitive | the she bear = bear not said here | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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