The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 47
Let me see him, so that I may jump upon him and kill him.”
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: let, see, jump, kill · To what, where: me, boy
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, me, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jump | punct |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 jump | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 so | fixed |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 jump | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 jump | aux |
| 10 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 jump | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kill | cc |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 jump | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | me not said here | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | jump | may | I | upon boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | I not said here | boy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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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