The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 36
So here the party divided, going off by twos and threes to try to find the camps of their enemies.
Who acts: party · What happens: divide, go off, try, find · To what, where: camps
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 here | advmod |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 divided | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 party | det |
| 4 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 divided | nsubj |
| 5 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 going | punct |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 divided | advcl |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 going | compound:prt |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 twos | case |
| 10 | twos | two | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 going | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 threes | cc |
| 12 | threes | three | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 twos | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 try | mark |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 try | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 camps | det |
| 18 | camps | camp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 enemies | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 21 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 camps | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | the party | here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go off | gerund | the party not said here | by twos and threes | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by two=Location | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | the party not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | the party not said here | the camps of threes's enemies | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Topic |
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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