The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 84
The chief had tried many times to kill this eagle, and so had other men, but no one could kill it.
Who acts: chief, one · What happens: try, kill, have · To what, where: eagle, other men
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 (chief, one), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | aux |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 times | amod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 eagle | det |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kill | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 had | advmod |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tried | parataxis |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kill | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 kill | cc |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | aux |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 had | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · perfect | the chief | time | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | this eagle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | other men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | |||||
| 4 | kill | could | no one | eagle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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