The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 60
I have taken pity on you, and we will send you back to your people, where you may do some good among them.
Who acts: I, we, you · What happens: take, send back, do · To what, where: pity, you, good
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 (I, we, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 taken | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 send | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 send | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 send | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 send | aux |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 taken | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 send | iobj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 send | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 people | nmod:poss |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 send | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 do | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 send | conj |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 good | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 do | obj |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect | I | pity | on you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on you=Destination | |||
| 2 | send back | future | we | you | to your people | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to people=Destination | |||
| 3 | do | may | you | some good | among people | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
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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