The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 4
When he went on the war-path he brought back nothing, and when he fought he did nothing, and the people did not now look up to him.
Who acts: father, people · What happens: go, bring back, fight, do, not look up · To what, where: war path, nothing, father
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 (father, people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 path | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 path | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 war | punct |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 path | acl:relcl |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 brought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 did | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 fought | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fought | nsubj |
| 17 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 did | advcl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 did | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 look | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 look | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 look | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 look | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 look | advmod |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 look | advmod |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 look | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 look | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | father | the war path | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on path=Location | ||||
| 2 | bring back | past | father | nothing | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fight | past | father | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | past | father | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not look up | past · do-support | the people | father | now | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme |
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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