The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 51
The Bear called out to the boy in a loud voice: “How dare you take up my child and hold it?
Who acts: boy · What happens: call out, take up, hold · To what, where: Bear, boy, dare · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bear | det |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Bear | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 10 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voice | amod |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 hold | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 hold | punct |
| 14 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 take | advmod |
| 15 | dare | dare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 hold | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 take | compound:prt |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 child | nmod:poss |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 hold | cc |
| 22 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Bear | acl:relcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hold | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: ask | participle | the Bear not said here | the boy in a loud voice | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to boy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take up in a quote | present | the boy in a loud voice = boy | dare | my child obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | |||
| 3 | hold in a quote | infinitive | dare | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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