The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 50

The man asked the bear what had become of the boy, but the bear would not reply to him.

Who acts: man, bear · What happens: ask, become, not reply · To what, where: bear, boy

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asked	obj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 become	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
8	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 bear	acl:relcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 boy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reply	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 reply	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bear	det
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reply	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reply	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 reply	advmod
18	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reply	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the man	the bear		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient
2	become	past · perfect	the bear	the boy		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not reply speech: assert	would	the bear		boy	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=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, Nothing Child, sentence 50