The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 91
After a moment he got up on his feet and slapped his paws on his chest several times, and the bullet came out of his mouth, and he walked around the fireplace two or three times, and made motions and grunted, and then he was well.
Who acts: boy, bullet · What happens: get up, slap, come out, walk, make, grunt · To what, where: feet, paws, mouth, fireplace, motions
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, bullet), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slapped | cc |
| 11 | slapped | slap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paws | nmod:poss |
| 13 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slapped | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 chest | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chest | nmod:poss |
| 16 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slapped | obl |
| 17 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 times | amod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slapped | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bullet | det |
| 22 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 mouth | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 mouth | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 walked | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 walked | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 walked | nsubj |
| 31 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 32 | around | around | ADP | _ | 34 fireplace | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fireplace | det |
| 34 | fireplace | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 walked | obl |
| 35 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 times | nummod |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 three | cc |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 two | conj |
| 38 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 made | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 made | cc |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 42 | motions | motion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 made | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 grunted | cc |
| 44 | grunted | grunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 made | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 well | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 well | cc |
| 47 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 well | advmod |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 well | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 well | cop |
| 50 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 made | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | boy | boy's feet | moment | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on foot=Source | |||
| 2 | slap | past | boy not said here | boy's paws | time | on boy's chest | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent paw=Instrument on chest=Patient | ||
| 3 | come out | past | the bullet | boy's mouth | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result | ||||
| 4 | walk | past | boy | the fireplace | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around fireplace=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | make | past | boy not said here | motions | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset motion=Product | ||||
| 6 | grunt | past | boy not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | boy | then | well property | tree rules |
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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