The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 311
After that the chief’s son would go off by himself and would meet the animals on the hills.
What happens: go off, meet · To what, where: animals, hills
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 chief | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 chief | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 go | compound:prt |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meet | cc |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 meet | aux |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 animals | det |
| 16 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meet | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 hills | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hills | det |
| 19 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meet | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | would | after that chief's son | by son | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by himself=Location | ||||
| 2 | meet | would | the animals | the hills | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Co-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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