The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 82
The she-bear took the gun, and they walked around the fireplace in a circle, and sang, and the boy looked on.
Who acts: she bear, bear, boy · What happens: take, walk, sing, look on · To what, where: gun, fireplace
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 (she bear, bear, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bear | det |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bear | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 she | punct |
| 4 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gun | det |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 walked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 walked | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 walked | nsubj |
| 11 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 fireplace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fireplace | det |
| 14 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 circle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 circle | det |
| 17 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 walked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sang | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sang | cc |
| 20 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 looked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 looked | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 looked | nsubj |
| 25 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 looked | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the she bear | the gun | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | bear | the fireplace | in a circle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around fireplace=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the she bear not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look on | past | the boy | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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