The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 58

On their way the bear told the man how it really had been, and that it was not the boy who had hurt the woman, but that she had done it herself, and in this way had caused his brother to lose his life.

Who acts: bear, way, boy, woman, brother · What happens: tell, not be, hurt, do, cause, lose · To what, where: man, way, boy, woman, brother, life · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bear, way, boy, woman), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 been	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 been	nsubj
11	really	really	ADV	_	13 been	advmod
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 been	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 man	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boy	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 boy	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 boy	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 boy	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 boy	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 boy	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	ccomp
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hurt	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hurt	aux
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 boy	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woman	det
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hurt	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 done	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 done	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 done	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 done	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 hurt	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 done	obj
34	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 done	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 caused	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 caused	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 way	case
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 way	det
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 caused	obl
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 caused	aux
41	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 done	conj
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 brother	nmod:poss
43	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 caused	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 lose	mark
45	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 caused	xcomp
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 life	nmod:poss
47	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 lose	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the bear		the man	things's way		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
2	not is a	past	way	the boy				tree rules
3	hurt	past · perfect	the boy	the woman				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Patient
4	do	past · perfect	woman	way			woman obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
5	cause	past · perfect	woman not said here	boy's brother		this way		tree rules
6	lose	to-infinitive	boy's brother not said here	brother's life				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality

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 Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 58