The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 60
That night the man said to the bear, “Well, we are only two now, and for myself, I have decided to stay here and starve to death, and as for you, you had better leave me and go your way and make your living as all bears do.”
Who acts: man, we, bear, bears, your · What happens: say, be, decide, stay, starve, have · To what, where: bear, two, man, way, living · 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 (man, we, bear, bears), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bear | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bear | det |
| 8 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 two | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 two | punct |
| 11 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 16 two | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Well | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 two | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 two | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 two | advmod |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 two | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 decided | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 decided | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 myself | case |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 myself | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 decided | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 decided | aux |
| 25 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 stay | mark |
| 27 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 decided | xcomp |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 stay | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 starve | cc |
| 30 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 stay | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 death | case |
| 32 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 starve | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 had | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 had | cc |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 37 you | case |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 as | fixed |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 had | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 you | punct |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 41 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 had | xcomp |
| 42 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 had | xcomp |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 leave | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 go | cc |
| 45 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 leave | conj |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 way | nmod:poss |
| 47 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 go | obj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 make | cc |
| 49 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 go | conj |
| 50 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 living | nmod:poss |
| 51 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 make | obj |
| 52 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 55 do | mark |
| 53 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 bears | det |
| 54 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 do | nsubj |
| 55 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 make | advcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 leave | punct |
| 57 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the man | the bear | night | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bear=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | we | two | now | tree rules | |||
| 3 | decide in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the man = man | I nsubj | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stay not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | starve in a quote | infinitive | to death | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | past | the bear = bear | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | leave in a quote | infinitive | the bear = bear not said here | the man = man | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 8 | go in a quote | infinitive | the bear = bear not said here | your way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 9 | make in a quote | infinitive | the bear = bear not said here | your living | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | ||||
| 10 | do in a quote | present | all bears | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | live in a quote | your | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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