The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 333
Before he died he said to his brother: “Do not mourn for me, for I shall always be near you.
Who acts: man · What happens: die, say, not mourn, be · To what, where: brother · 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 (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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 died | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 mourn | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 mourn | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 mourn | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 mourn | advmod |
| 13 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 mourn | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 you | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 you | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 you | aux |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 you | advmod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 you | cop |
| 22 | near | near | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 mourn | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | man's brother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not mourn in a quote | infinitive · do-support | man not said here | for man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for i=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | shall | man | for man's brother = brother; always 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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