The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 5
This man had a tame bear, which he had caught when it was a little cub.
Who acts: man, bear · What happens: have, catch, be · To what, where: tame bear, little cub
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, bear), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 5 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bear | amod |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caught | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 caught | aux |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bear | acl:relcl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 cub | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cub | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cub | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cub | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cub | amod |
| 17 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this man | a tame bear | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | catch | past · perfect · passive | a tame bear | man nsubj:pass | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | bear | a little cub | 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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