The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 322
The Bear man went often on the war-path, but his brother stayed at home, and fought against the enemy only when they attacked the village.
Who acts: Bear man, brother, brothers · What happens: go, stay, fight, attack · To what, where: war path, home, village
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 (Bear man, brother, brothers), 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 man | det |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | compound |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 path | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 path | det |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 path | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 war | punct |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stayed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stayed | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | nsubj |
| 15 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stayed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fought | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fought | cc |
| 20 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stayed | conj |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 enemy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 enemy | det |
| 23 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fought | obl |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 attacked | advmod |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 attacked | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 attacked | nsubj |
| 27 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fought | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 village | det |
| 29 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 attacked | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Bear man | the war path | often property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on path=Location | |||
| 2 | stay | past | man's brother | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 3 | fight | past | man's brother not said here | against the enemy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | attack | past | brothers = brother | the village | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Patient |
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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