The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 99

Let each take a piece of the tongue, and let all say together, ‘Great Sun, let us eat together, and grant to us that our people may recover.’

Who acts: you, each, us, people · What happens: let, take, say, eat, recover · To what, where: each, piece, Great Sun, us, grant · 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 (you, each, us, people), 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	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Let	obj
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 piece	det
5	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 tongue	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tongue	det
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piece	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 let	cc
11	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 say	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Sun	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 Sun	punct
17	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Sun	amod
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 say	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 eat	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grant	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grant	cc
26	grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 us	case
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 grant	nmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 recover	mark
30	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 people	nmod:poss
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 recover	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 recover	aux
33	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 grant	acl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	each	grant to us obl	tree rules
2	take	infinitive	each not said here	a piece of the tongue		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
3	let	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	Great Sun	all, together property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	let	infinitive	you not said here	us		tree rules
6	eat	infinitive	us not said here		together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	recover	may	our people	grant to us not said here		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Theme

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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The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 99