The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 55
When the Bear saw that the boy would not let the cub go, he became quiet, and no longer seemed angry.
Who acts: Bear, boy, cub · What happens: see, not let, go, become, seem · To what, where: cub · 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 (Bear, boy, cub), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bear | det |
| 3 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 became | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 let | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cub | det |
| 12 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 became | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seemed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seemed | cc |
| 20 | no | no | ADV | _ | 21 longer | advmod |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 seemed | advmod |
| 22 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 became | conj |
| 23 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 seemed | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Bear | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not let | would | the boy | the cub | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | the cub not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | become | past | boy | quiet property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | boy not said here | angry, long property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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