The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 74
Your brother, your friend at the camp, is looking for you, mourning for you, for he thinks you dead, but to-morrow night you shall see him, and shall tell him to rejoice for you and not to mourn.
Who acts: brother, friend, you · What happens: look, mourn, think, see, tell, rejoice · To what, where: you, friend · 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 (brother, friend, 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | appos |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 camp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 brother | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 looking | aux |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 looking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mourning | punct |
| 15 | mourning | mourn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 looking | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 mourning | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thinks | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 thinks | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 thinks | nsubj |
| 21 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 looking | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 thinks | obj |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thinks | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 see | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 see | cc |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 night | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 to | punct |
| 28 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 night | compound |
| 29 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | obl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 see | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 see | aux |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 thinks | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 see | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tell | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 tell | cc |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 tell | aux |
| 37 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 see | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 tell | iobj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 rejoice | mark |
| 40 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 tell | xcomp |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 you | case |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 rejoice | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 mourn | cc |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 mourn | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 mourn | mark |
| 46 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 rejoice | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | Your brother | for you | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mourn | gerund | Your brother not said here | for you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for you=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | friend | you | dead property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | shall | you | friend | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | shall | you not said here | friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | rejoice not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | for you | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | not mourn | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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