The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 6

They were like brothers; they used to hunt together and go courting together, and when they were travelling, the poor boy often rode one of the ponies of the chief’s son, and the latter used to go to the poor boy’s lodge and sleep there with him.

Who acts: people, poor boy, latter · What happens: be, use, hunt, go, court, travel · To what, where: brothers, one, lodge

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 (people, poor boy, latter), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 brothers	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brothers	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 brothers	case
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 used	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 used	nsubj
7	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 brothers	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hunt	mark
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 used	xcomp
10	together	together	ADV	_	9 hunt	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 go	cc
12	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hunt	conj
13	courting	court	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 go	xcomp
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 courting	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 travelling	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 travelling	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 travelling	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 travelling	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 travelling	aux
20	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 used	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rode	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rode	nsubj
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 rode	advmod
26	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 travelling	parataxis
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 rode	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 ponies	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ponies	det
30	ponies	pony	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 son	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 chief	det
33	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 son	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 chief	case
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ponies	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 used	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 used	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 latter	det
39	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 used	nsubj
40	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 rode	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 go	mark
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 used	xcomp
43	to	to	ADP	_	48 lodge	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 boy	det
45	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 boy	amod
46	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lodge	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 boy	case
48	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 go	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 sleep	cc
50	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 used	conj
51	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 sleep	advmod
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 him	case
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sleep	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brothers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	people			like brothers	tree rules
2	use	past	people	brothers not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	hunt	to-infinitive	people not said here			together property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	present	people not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	court	gerund	people not said here			together property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	travel	past · progressive	people				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ride	past	the poor boy	one of the ponies of the chief's son		often property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
8	use	past	the latter				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	go	to-infinitive	the latter not said here		the poor boy's lodge		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location
10	sleep	present	the latter not said here		there	with boy	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 6