The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 83
The Bear took the gun and told the boy to look at them, and to watch carefully everything that they did.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: take, tell, look, watch, do · To what, where: gun, boy, everything · 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 (Bear), 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 | 2 Bear | det |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gun | det |
| 5 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | ccomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 watch | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 watch | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 watch | mark |
| 17 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 18 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 17 watch | advmod |
| 19 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 watch | obj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 watch | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Bear | the gun | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the Bear not said here | the boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | at bear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | watch | to-infinitive | everything | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past | bear | vn act-114-1 «NP 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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