The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 97
The Bear took it out and made him well, and gave him also this power.
Who acts: Bear · What happens: take out, make, give · To what, where: arrow, boy, power
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 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 made | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 gave | advmod |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 power | det |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | the Bear | arrow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the Bear not said here | boy | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 3 | give | past | the Bear not said here | this power | boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=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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