The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 61
Sun Dog approached her and said: “Mother, I have brought a young man to our lodge who is very poor.
Who acts: Sun Dog, Mother, lodge · What happens: approach, say, bring, be · To what, where: scar, young man, lodge · 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 (Sun Dog, Mother, lodge), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Dog | compound |
| 2 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | _ | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approached | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approached | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Mother | punct |
| 9 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 brought | aux |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 Mother | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 lodge | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 poor | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 poor | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 poor | advmod |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lodge | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | Sun Dog | scar | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | Mother | a young man | our lodge | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme to lodge=Destination | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | our lodge | poor 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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