The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 96
The Bear then put an arrow in the gun and shot it at the boy, and when the smoke cleared away the boy found the arrow fast in his throat, the feather end sticking out.
Who acts: Bear, smoke, feather end · What happens: put, shoot, clear away, find, stick out · To what, where: arrow, gun, boy, throat
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, smoke, feather end), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 arrow | det |
| 6 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 gun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gun | det |
| 9 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shot | cc |
| 11 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shot | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 boy | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 cleared | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 smoke | det |
| 20 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cleared | nsubj |
| 21 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | advcl |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 cleared | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cleared | obj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 arrow | det |
| 27 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obj |
| 28 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 found | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 throat | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 throat | nmod:poss |
| 31 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 end | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 end | det |
| 34 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 end | compound |
| 35 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 throat | appos |
| 36 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 end | acl |
| 37 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 sticking | compound:prt |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | the Bear | a arrow | the gun | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme in gun=Destination | ||
| 2 | shoot | past | the Bear not said here | arrow | at the boy | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at boy=Destination | |||
| 3 | clear away | past | the smoke | the boy | away property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent boy=Source | |||
| 4 | find | past | the arrow | boy's throat | fast property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Topic | |||
| 5 | stick out | gerund | the feather end not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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