The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 324
The Bear man after this had some children, and when they had grown up he told his son the secrets of his power.
Who acts: Bear man, children, man · What happens: have, grow up, tell · To what, where: children, secrets, son · 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 (Bear man, children, man), 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 | 6 had | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 man | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 grown | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grown | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grown | aux |
| 14 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 told | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grown | compound:prt |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | iobj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 secrets | det |
| 21 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 told | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 power | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 power | nmod:poss |
| 24 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 secrets | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Bear man after this | some children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow up | past · perfect | children = child | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | man | the secrets of man's power | man's son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient secret=Topic |
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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