The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 103

So they went to the chief and asked him to try his people once more, that they thought that the Nothing Child had not killed the wolf fairly.

Who acts: children · What happens: go, ask, try, think, not kill · To what, where: chief, man, people, Nothing Child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 chief	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chief	det
6	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 try	mark
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 people	nmod:poss
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 try	obj
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 try	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 thought	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 killed	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Child	det
22	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Child	compound
23	Child	Child	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 killed	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 killed	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 killed	advmod
26	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 thought	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wolf	det
28	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 killed	obj
29	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	26 killed	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	children = child			the chief		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chief=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	children = child not said here		man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	man's people				vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	past	children = child					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not kill	past · perfect · passive		the Nothing Child			the wolf obj; fairly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer wolf=Result

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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 103