The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 96
Let one woman make the medicine, another cut thin and dry the tongues, and the other two boil the tongues.
Who acts: Let one woman, other two · What happens: let, make, dry, boil · To what, where: medicine, tongues
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 (Let one woman, other two), 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 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 woman | compound |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 woman | nummod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 medicine | det |
| 6 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 cut | det |
| 9 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 medicine | conj |
| 10 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 make | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dry | cc |
| 12 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tongues | det |
| 14 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dry | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 boil | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 boil | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 two | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 two | amod |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 boil | nsubj |
| 20 | boil | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tongues | det |
| 22 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 boil | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | Let one woman | the medicine and another cut | thin property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Product | |||
| 3 | dry | infinitive | Let one woman not said here | the tongues | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tongue=Result | ||||
| 4 | boil | present | the other two | the tongues | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |
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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