The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 62

One night while the man was lying asleep, he dreamed of the bear; and the bear spoke to him and said: “My brother, listen to the words that I speak to you, and do now what I tell you to.

Who acts: man, bear, brother · What happens: lie, dream, speak, say, listen, do · To what, where: One night, man, words, you · 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, bear, brother), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dreamed	obl:unmarked
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 lying	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lying	aux
7	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 night	acl
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lying	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dreamed	nsubj
11	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 bear	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bear	det
14	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dreamed	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 spoke	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spoke	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bear	det
18	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spoke	nsubj
19	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dreamed	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spoke	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spoke	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 listen	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 listen	punct
26	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brother	nmod:poss
27	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 listen	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brother	punct
29	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 words	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 words	det
32	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 listen	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 speak	obj
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 speak	nsubj
35	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 words	acl:relcl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 speak	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 do	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 do	cc
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 listen	conj
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 do	advmod
42	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 do	obj
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 tell	nsubj
44	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 what	acl:relcl
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 tell	iobj
46	to	to	PART	_	44 tell	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dreamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	the man	One night not said here			asleep property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location night=Theme
2	dream	past	man			night	of the bear	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other	past	the bear		man			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the bear not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	listen in a quote	infinitive	My brother				to the words	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
6	speak speech: other in a quote	present	the bear = bear	the words	you			tree rules
7	do in a quote	infinitive	My brother not said here			now	what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the bear = bear		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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 62