The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 321
The other chief, when asked to do this, agreed, and it was so done.
Who acts: other chief, disease · What happens: ask, do, agree, be · To what, where: this
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 (other chief, disease), 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 | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chief | amod |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 asked | advmod |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chief | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | xcomp |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 agreed | punct |
| 11 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 done | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 done | advmod |
| 17 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 agreed | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | the other chief | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | disease | done property | tree rules |
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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