The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 92

Then he took the boy in his arms, and hugged him and kissed him and breathed on him, and said: “Now I give you my power.

Who acts: boy · What happens: take, hug, kiss, breathe, say, give · To what, where: boy, arms, power, you · 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), 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 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 arms	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arms	nmod:poss
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hugged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hugged	cc
11	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hugged	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kissed	cc
14	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hugged	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kissed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 breathed	cc
17	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hugged	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 breathed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 give	punct
25	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 give	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 give	nsubj
27	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 give	iobj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 power	nmod:poss
30	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 give	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	boy	the boy		boy's arms	then		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Value in arm=Location
2	hug	past	boy not said here	boy					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	kiss	past	boy not said here	boy					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
4	breathe	past	boy not said here					on boy	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on he=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past	boy not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	give in a quote	present	boy	my power	you		now		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient power=Theme

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 92

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 92