The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 82
So we laid a plan to kill you before we went to camp.”
Who acts: we · What happens: lay, kill, go · To what, where: plan, you, camp
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 (we), 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 | _ | 3 laid | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 plan | det |
| 5 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laid | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 kill | mark |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 plan | acl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 went | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kill | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 camp | case |
| 13 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | we | a plan | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Result | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | we | camp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_Location |
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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