The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 319
Let him give his daughter, his lodge, his people, to him, and this day we will accept your gifts to us.
Who acts: you, chief, we, your · What happens: let, give, accept, gift · To what, where: chief, daughter, gifts, us
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 (you, chief, we, your), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lodge | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 people | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 people | nmod:poss |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 daughter | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 him | punct |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 accept | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 accept | cc |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accept | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 accept | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 accept | aux |
| 21 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 accept | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 accept | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | chief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | chief not said here | chief's daughter and chief's lodge and chief's people | chief | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme | |||
| 3 | accept | future | we | your gifts | us | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent gift=Theme to we=be' | ||
| 4 | gift | your | nom gift «possession 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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