The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 96

So the chief told the young men that they might again try their luck for the young girls, and that whoever killed a white wolf with a black tail should have his daughters.

Who acts: chief, daughters, whoever, white wolf · What happens: tell, try, kill, have · To what, where: young men, luck, daughters · 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 (chief, daughters, whoever, white wolf), 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	_	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chief	det
3	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 men	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 men	amod
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 told	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 try	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 try	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 try	aux
11	again	again	ADV	_	12 try	advmod
12	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 luck	nmod:poss
14	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 try	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 girls	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 girls	det
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 girls	amod
18	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 try	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 killed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 killed	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 killed	mark
22	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 killed	nsubj
23	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wolf	det
25	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wolf	amod
26	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	nsubj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 tail	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 tail	det
29	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tail	amod
30	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wolf	nmod
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 killed	ccomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 daughters	nmod:poss
34	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 have	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the chief		the young men			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
2	try not said to happen	might	daughters = daughter	daughters's luck		again	for the young girls	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent luck=Theme for girl=Attribute
3	kill	past	whoever					tree rules
4	have	should	a white wolf with a black tail	man's daughters				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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 96