The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 34

As soon as you hear any noise outside—any one coming—pick up that cub, the littlest one, and hold it in your arms.

Who acts: you, one · What happens: hear, come, pick up, hold · To what, where: noise, cub, arms

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 (you, one), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 coming	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 hear	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
5	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 soon	advcl
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 noise	det
7	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 hear	advmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	12 coming	punct
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 coming	nsubj
12	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	—	-	PUNCT	_	14 pick	punct
14	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 coming	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 pick	compound:prt
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 cub	det
17	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pick	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 one	det
20	littlest	little	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 one	amod
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cub	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hold	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hold	cc
24	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 pick	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hold	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 arms	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hold	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 coming	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	you	any noise		outside property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	any one			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pick up	infinitive		that cub			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Topic
4	hold	infinitive		noise	your arms		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in arm=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 34