The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 64
That is where your fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, and brothers were killed by a grizzly bear.
Who acts: That, grizzly bear · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: brothers
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, grizzly 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 where | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | cop |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 where | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mothers | punct |
| 7 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fathers | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 uncles | punct |
| 9 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fathers | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 aunts | punct |
| 11 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fathers | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 killed | cc |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | aux:pass |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 where | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 bear | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bear | det |
| 19 | grizzly | grizzly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bear | amod |
| 20 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | your fathers and mothers and uncles and aunts nsubj; where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | a grizzly bear | brothers | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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