The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 22
When he entered he said: “Grandmother, make me some moccasins and put some dried buffalo meat in a sack for me.
Who acts: person, Grandmother, some · What happens: enter, say, make, put, dry, meat · To what, where: moccasins, person, sack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Medicine Lodge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, Grandmother, some), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 8 | Grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Grandmother | punct |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 moccasins | det |
| 13 | moccasins | moccasin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 make | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 meat | nsubj |
| 17 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 meat | amod |
| 18 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meat | compound |
| 19 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 sack | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sack | det |
| 22 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | person | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | person | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | Grandmother | some moccasins | person | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary moccasin=Product | |||
| 4 | put in a quote | infinitive | Grandmother not said here | a sack | for person | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sack=Destination | |||
| 5 | dry in a quote | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | meat in a quote | some | 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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