The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 325
He was now beginning to grow old, and his son went on the war-path, while he stayed at home.
Who acts: man, son · What happens: begin, grow, go, stay · To what, where: war path, home
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 (man, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beginning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 beginning | advmod |
| 4 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 grow | mark |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beginning | xcomp |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grow | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beginning | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 path | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 path | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 war | punct |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stayed | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 stayed | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stayed | nsubj |
| 21 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 home | case |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stayed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | man | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | man not said here | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | man's son | the war path | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on path=Location | ||||
| 4 | stay | past | man | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
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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