The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 73
I shall kill my son, your little brother there, and give you his skin to keep and to carry away with you, so that he may be your companion and may be with you always.
Who acts: I, son · What happens: kill, give, keep, carry away, be · To what, where: son, skin, you, companion
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, son), 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 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 kill | aux |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brother | punct |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | appos |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 brother | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 kill | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 give | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 carry | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 carry | mark |
| 21 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 keep | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 carry | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 carry | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 companion | punct |
| 26 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 companion | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 so | fixed |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 companion | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 companion | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 companion | cop |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 companion | nmod:poss |
| 32 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 you | cc |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 you | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 you | cop |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 you | case |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 kill | parataxis |
| 38 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 37 you | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | shall | I | my son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | I not said here | son's skin | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient skin=Theme | |||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | carry away | to-infinitive | I not said here | with you; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | may | son | your companion | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | may | with you; always property | 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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