The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 67

I drove the buffalo over, so that the people should stop here and hunt and kill meat, in order that you might come to my lodge.

Who acts: I, people, order · What happens: drive over, stop, hunt, kill, come · To what, where: buffalo, order, meat, 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 (I, people, order), 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	2 drove	nsubj
2	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 buffalo	det
4	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drove	obj
5	over	over	ADV	_	2 drove	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 stop	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 stop	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stop	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	aux
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drove	parataxis
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 stop	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hunt	cc
15	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stop	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kill	cc
17	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hunt	conj
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kill	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 order	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 order	case
21	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunt	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 come	nsubj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 order	acl:relcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 lodge	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lodge	nmod:poss
28	lodge	lodge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive over	past	I	the buffalo		over property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme
2	stop	should	the people		here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	hunt	present	the people not said here		order		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in order=Location
4	kill	present	the people not said here	meat			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
5	come	might	order		my lodge	you nsubj	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial_Location

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 67

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 67