The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 87

When this was called out through the camp by the old crier, all the young men came out to try to kill the eagle, but no one could do it.

Who acts: old crier, young men, one · What happens: call out, come out, try, kill, do · To what, where: this, camp, old crier, eagle

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 (old crier, young men, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 called	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 called	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux:pass
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 called	compound:prt
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 camp	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 camp	det
8	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 crier	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crier	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crier	amod
12	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 men	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 crier	acl:relcl
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 try	mark
21	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 came	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 kill	mark
23	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 try	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 eagle	det
25	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kill	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 do	cc
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 called	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past · passive	the old crier	this	the camp		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
2	come out	past	all young men	the old crier not said here		out property	tree rules
3	try	to-infinitive	all young men not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	all young men not said here	the eagle			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme
5	do	could	no one	eagle			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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 87