The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 61

My son, I am at the head of all these animal lodges, down at Pahŭk′ and at Pahūr′ and everywhere else.

Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: head, son

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), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 head	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 head	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 head	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 son	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 lodges	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 lodges	det:predet
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 lodges	det
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lodges	compound
13	lodges	lodge	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 head	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ′	punct
15	down	down	ADV	_	18 ′	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 ′	case
17	Pahŭk	Pahŭk	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ′	compound
18	′	′	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lodges	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ′	cc
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 ′	case
21	Pahūr	Pahūr	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ′	compound
22	′	′	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ′	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 everywhere	cc
24	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 lodges	advmod
25	else	else	ADV	_	24 everywhere	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			the head		of all animal lodges and Pahŭk ′ and Pahūr ′	tree rules

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 tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 61