The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 68
Sun Dog removed the robes and brought Scarface before the Sun. The Sun looked at Scarface a short time, and turning to the Moon, bade her make Scarface as handsome as their own son, and give him some nice clothes to wear.
Who acts: Sun, Sun., bade · What happens: remove, bring, look, turn, make, give · To what, where: robes, Scarface, nice clothes
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, Sun., bade), 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 | 3 removed | nsubj |
| 2 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | flat |
| 3 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 robes | det |
| 5 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 removed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brought | cc |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 removed | conj |
| 8 | Scarface | scarface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 looked | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sun. | det |
| 11 | Sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sun | det |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Scarface | case |
| 16 | Scarface | scarface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 turning | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 turning | cc |
| 22 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 removed | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Moon | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Moon | det |
| 25 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 turning | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bade | punct |
| 27 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 make | nsubj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bade | acl |
| 29 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 turning | parataxis |
| 30 | Scarface | scarface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 make | obj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 handsome | case |
| 32 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 make | xcomp |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 son | case |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 son | amod |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 handsome | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 give | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 give | cc |
| 39 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 removed | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 give | iobj |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 clothes | det |
| 42 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 clothes | amod |
| 43 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 39 give | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 wear | mark |
| 45 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 clothes | acl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past | Sun | the robes | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Sun not said here | Scarface | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent scarface=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | the Sun. | time | at Scarface; the Sun nsubj | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at scarface=Theme | |||
| 4 | turn | gerund | to the Moon result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to moon=Result | |||||
| 5 | make | infinitive | bade scar | Scarface | handsome property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scarface=Product | |||
| 6 | give | infinitive | Sun not said here | some nice clothes | Scarface | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clothes=Theme | |||
| 7 | wear | to-infinitive | Sun not said here | some nice clothes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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