The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 107
Your daughter tried to kill me on this trip, while I was fighting with this Snake Indian.
Who acts: daughter, I · What happens: try, kill, fight · To what, where: me, trip
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Shield Quiver’s Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, I), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 kill | mark |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 trip | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 trip | det |
| 9 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kill | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fighting | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 fighting | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fighting | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fighting | aux |
| 14 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tried | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Snake | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Snake | det |
| 17 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fighting | obl |
| 18 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fighting | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Your daughter | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your daughter not said here | me | this trip | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | fight | past · progressive | I | with this Snake; indian property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with snake=Co-Agent |
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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