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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 86

When the Sun returned in the evening, Sun Dog said, “Father, my friend killed the bad birds to-day,” and he showed them to him.

Who acts: Sun, Father · What happens: return, say, kill, show · To what, where: bad birds, birds, friend · 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, Father), 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

advmoddetnsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctnsubjflatpunctpunctnsubjpunctnmod:possapposccompdetamodobjcasepunctoblpunctpunctccnsubjconjobjcaseoblpunctrootWhenADVtheDETSunPROPNreturnedVERBinADPtheDETeveningNOUN,PUNCTSunPROPNDogPROPNsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTFatherNOUN,PUNCTmyPRONfriendNOUNkilledVERBtheDETbadADJbirdsNOUNtoADP-PUNCTdayNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTandCCONJhePRONshowedVERBthemPRONtoADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int4 returnedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Sundet
3SunSunPROPNNumber=Sing4 returnednsubj
4returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 saidadvcl
5ininADP_7 eveningcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 eveningdet
7eveningeveningNOUNNumber=Sing4 returnedobl
8,,PUNCT_4 returnedpunct
9SunSunPROPNNumber=Sing11 saidnsubj
10DogDogPROPNNumber=Sing9 Sunflat
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12,,PUNCT_18 killedpunct
13“"PUNCT_14 Fatherpunct
14FatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing18 killednsubj
15,,PUNCT_17 friendpunct
16mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 friendnmod:poss
17friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing14 Fatherappos
18killedkillVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 saidccomp
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 birdsdet
20badbadADJDegree=Pos21 birdsamod
21birdsbirdNOUNNumber=Plur18 killedobj
22totoADP_24 daycase
23--PUNCT_22 topunct
24daydayNOUNNumber=Sing18 killedobl
25,,PUNCT_24 daypunct
26”"PUNCT_24 daypunct
27andandCCONJ_29 showedcc
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 showednsubj
29showedshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 killedconj
30themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 showedobj
31totoADP_32 himcase
32himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 showedobl
33..PUNCT_11 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1returnpastthe Suneveningvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2say speech: assertpastSunvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3kill in a quotepastFatherthe bad birdsdayvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
4showpastfatherbirds = birdfriendvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to he=Recipient

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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