The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 166
The enemy soon came up and tried to kill him, but they could not.
Who acts: enemy · What happens: come up, try, kill · To what, where: enemy
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 enemy | det |
| 2 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tried | cc |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 could | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 could | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 could | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | advcl |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 could | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the enemy | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the enemy not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the enemy not said here | enemy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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