The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 161
By the aid of his medicine he was able not only to cure sickness, but he became a great warrior.
Who acts: chief · What happens: be, not cure, become, medicine · To what, where: sickness, great warrior
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 aid | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 aid | det |
| 3 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 able | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 medicine | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 medicine | nmod:poss |
| 6 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aid | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 able | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 cure | advmod |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 cure | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cure | mark |
| 13 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 14 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cure | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 became | nsubj |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 warrior | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 warrior | amod |
| 21 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chief | by the aid of chief's medicine; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not cure | to-infinitive | chief not said here | sickness | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer sickness=Source | ||||
| 3 | become | past | chief | a great warrior | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | medicine | chief | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: 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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