The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 76
The little bear that he was holding said to the boy: “It is all right now, brother; put me down.
Who acts: boy, little bear, brother · What happens: say, be, put down · To what, where: friend, brother, boy · 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 (boy, little bear, brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bear | amod |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brother | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 said | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | aux:pass |
| 7 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 said | aux:pass |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bear | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 boy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl:agent |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 brother | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 brother | punct |
| 14 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brother | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 brother | cop |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 brother | advmod |
| 17 | right | right | ADV | _ | 18 now | advmod |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 all | fixed |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brother | punct |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 brother | acl |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 put | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | the boy | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the little bear | brother | now | living nsubj; all property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | put down in a quote | infinitive | brother not said here | the boy = boy | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |
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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