The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 71
The Moon took Sun Dog and Scarface before the Sun and said, “O Sun, tell me which is Sun Dog.”
Who acts: Moon, Sun · What happens: take, say, tell, be · To what, where: Sun Dog, Moon · 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 (Moon, Sun), 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 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Dog | compound |
| 5 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Scarface | cc |
| 7 | Scarface | scarface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 Sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sun | det |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 15 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 16 Sun | discourse |
| 16 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sun | punct |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 Dog | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Dog | cop |
| 22 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Dog | compound |
| 23 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Moon | Sun Dog | before the Sun | Scarface conj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme before sun=Destination | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Moon not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Sun | the Moon = moon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Sun Dog | which nsubj | 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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