The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 49

He stood up on his hind feet and threw up his hands, and then came down again and struck his paws on the ground, and then rose up and snorted “whoof,” and blew out red dust from his nostrils, and then came down and jumped about, and sometimes sprang towards the boy, as though he were going to seize him.

Who acts: boy · What happens: stand up, throw up, come down, strike, rise up, snort · To what, where: hind feet, hands, paws, whoof, red dust, 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 (boy), 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	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 stood	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 feet	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
6	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feet	amod
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 threw	cc
9	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 threw	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 threw	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 struck	cc
20	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 paws	nmod:poss
22	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 struck	obj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ground	det
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rose	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rose	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 rose	advmod
29	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 rose	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 snorted	cc
32	snorted	snort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 rose	conj
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 whoof	punct
34	whoof	whoof	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 snorted	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 whoof	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 whoof	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 blew	cc
38	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 blew	compound:prt
40	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 dust	amod
41	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 blew	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 nostrils	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 nostrils	nmod:poss
44	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 blew	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 came	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 came	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	48 came	advmod
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
49	down	down	ADV	_	48 came	advmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 jumped	cc
51	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 came	conj
52	about	about	ADV	_	51 jumped	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 sprang	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 sprang	cc
55	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	56 sprang	advmod
56	sprang	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stood	advcl
57	towards	towards	ADP	_	59 boy	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 boy	det
59	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sprang	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 going	punct
61	as	as	SCONJ	_	65 going	mark
62	though	though	SCONJ	_	65 going	mark
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 going	nsubj
64	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 going	aux
65	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 sprang	conj
66	to	to	PART	_	67 seize	mark
67	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 going	xcomp
68	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 seize	obj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	boy		boy's hind feet			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location
2	throw up	past	boy not said here	boy's hands				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	come down	past				then; again	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	strike	past	boy not said here	boy's paws			on the ground	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent paw=Instrument on ground=Patient
5	rise up	past				then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	snort	past		whoof				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whoof=Patient
7	blow out	past	boy not said here	red dust			from boy's nostrils	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent dust=Patient from nostril=Co-Patient
8	come down	past				then	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	jump about	past					about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	spring	gerund	boy not said here				towards the boy; sometimes property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards boy=Destination
11	go	past · progressive	boy					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	seize	to-infinitive	boy not said here	boy				vn obtain-13.5.2 «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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 49