The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 59
He has told me your story, and how you are poor, unhappy, and now he has kept you from being eaten up.
Who acts: boy, you · What happens: tell, be, keep, eat up · To what, where: story, me, boy · 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, you), 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 | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 poor | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 poor | cc |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 poor | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 poor | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 poor | cop |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unhappy | punct |
| 14 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 poor | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kept | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 kept | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 kept | aux |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 kept | obj |
| 22 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 24 eaten | mark |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 eaten | aux:pass |
| 24 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 kept | advcl |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 eaten | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | boy | your story | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | keep | present · perfect · passive | boy | now | you obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme you=Attribute | |||
| 5 | eat up | gerund · passive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
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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