The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 314
Finally the head chief sent for the Bear man and said to him: “My son, I offered you my lodge, my daughter, and the whole tribe.
Who acts: son · What happens: send, say, offer · To what, where: head chief, chief, lodge · 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 (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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 11 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | compound |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Finally | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 chief | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | compound |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 offered | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 offered | punct |
| 16 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offered | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 offered | nsubj |
| 20 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 offered | iobj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offered | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 daughter | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lodge | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 tribe | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tribe | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tribe | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tribe | amod |
| 31 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offered | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | the head chief not said here | for the Bear man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | chief | finally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | offer in a quote | past | My son | my lodge and my daughter | chief | the whole tribe obl; I nsubj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal lodge=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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