The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 73
His father was using his power so that the bear could not hurt him.
Who acts: father, bear · What happens: use, not hurt · To what, where: power, boy
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 (father, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 using | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 using | aux |
| 4 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 power | nmod:poss |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 using | obj |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 hurt | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 so | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bear | det |
| 10 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hurt | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurt | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 hurt | advmod |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 using | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hurt | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 using | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · progressive | boy's father | boy's power | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not hurt | could | the bear | boy | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
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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