The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 7
Once the camp went off to hunt buffalo, and the poor boy and the chief’s son rode together all the time.
Who acts: camp, poor boy · What happens: go off, hunt, ride · To what, where: buffalo
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 (camp, poor boy), 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 | Once | once | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 camp | det |
| 3 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hunt | mark |
| 7 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunt | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rode | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rode | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boy | amod |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rode | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 son | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 chief | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | conj |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 rode | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 time | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | the camp | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | the camp not said here | buffalo | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | the poor boy and the chief's son | time | together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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