The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 72
The Sun looked at the two boys for a moment, and then pointed to Sun Dog, and said, “This is our son.”
Who acts: Sun, This · What happens: look, point, say, be · To what, where: Sun Dog, son · 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, This), 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 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 boys | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boys | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 boys | nummod |
| 7 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pointed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pointed | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 pointed | advmod |
| 14 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Dog | case |
| 16 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Dog | compound |
| 17 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pointed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 son | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 son | punct |
| 23 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 son | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 son | cop |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 son | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Sun | moment | at the two boys | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at boy=Theme | |||
| 2 | point | past | the Sun not said here | Sun Dog | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dog=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Sun not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | This | our son | our nmod:poss | 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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