The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 95

They said that it was not fair, that the boy had made a chance shot, and they asked the chief to try their skill in some other way.

Who acts: daughters, decision, chief · What happens: say, not be, make, ask, try · To what, where: boy, chief, skill, other way · 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 (daughters, decision, chief), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 fair	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fair	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fair	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fair	advmod
7	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 made	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shot	det
15	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shot	compound
16	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 chief	det
22	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 try	mark
24	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 asked	xcomp
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 skill	nmod:poss
26	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 try	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 way	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 way	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 way	amod
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 try	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	daughters = daughter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not is	past	decision			fair property	tree rules
3	make	past · perfect · passive		the boy		a chance shot obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary shot=Product
4	ask speech: ask	past	daughters = daughter	the chief			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic
5	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	the chief not said here	daughters's skill	some other way		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=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 95