The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 69

I know that you are sorry for your poor father, my brother, and I wished you to come here, so that I might make you my son and give my power to you, so that you may become a great man among your people.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, be, wish, come, make, give · To what, where: you, son, power, great man · 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 (I, 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	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 sorry	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sorry	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sorry	cop
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 father	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 father	amod
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorry	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 brother	punct
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brother	nmod:poss
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wished	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wished	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wished	nsubj
17	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wished	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wished	xcomp
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 come	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 make	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 make	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 make	obj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 son	nmod:poss
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 give	cc
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 make	conj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 power	nmod:poss
34	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 give	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 become	punct
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	42 become	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 become	nsubj
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 become	aux
42	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 give	advcl
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 man	det
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 man	amod
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 become	xcomp
46	among	among	ADP	_	48 people	case
47	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 people	nmod:poss
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 man	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	you				for your poor father and my brother; sorry property	tree rules
3	wish	past	I	you				tree rules
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	might	I	my son	you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary son=Product
6	give	infinitive	I not said here	my power	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Theme to you=Recipient
7	become	may	you	a great man among your people				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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 69