The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 89
Then he gave the gun to the boy and went to the other side of the lodge, and sat up, and said, “Now I will open my mouth, and you shoot me right in the mouth.”
Who acts: boy, you · What happens: give, go, sit up, say, open, shoot · To what, where: gun, boy, other side, mouth · 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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | 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 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 boy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lodge | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lodge | det |
| 17 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sat | cc |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 sat | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 open | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 open | punct |
| 27 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 open | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 open | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 open | aux |
| 30 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 open | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 shoot | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 shoot | cc |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 shoot | nsubj |
| 36 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 shoot | obj |
| 38 | right | right | ADV | _ | 36 shoot | advmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 mouth | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 mouth | det |
| 41 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shoot | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | boy | the gun | the boy | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gun=Theme to boy=Recipient | ||
| 2 | go | past | boy not said here | the other side of the lodge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sit up | past | boy not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | boy not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | open in a quote | future | boy | my mouth | now | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | |||
| 6 | shoot in a quote | present | you | boy | the mouth | right property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in mouth=Destination |
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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