The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 93
If there are any sick or dying among your people, in order to make them well you must build the Medicine Lodge.
Who acts: sick, you · What happens: be, die, make, build · To what, where: people, Medicine Lodge
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 (sick, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 are | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | advcl |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 sick | det |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 are | nsubj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 dying | cc |
| 7 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 sick | conj |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 make | mark |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 in | fixed |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 build | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 build | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 build | aux |
| 20 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lodge | det |
| 22 | Medicine | Medicine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Lodge | compound |
| 23 | Lodge | Lodge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 build | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | any sick | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | gerund | any sick not said here | among your people | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | people | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | build | must | you | the Medicine Lodge | well property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Product |
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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