The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 121

Once more the old man tried with all his power to persuade him to make a different choice, and the sweat rolled from his brow as he entreated the young man to select something else, and once more New Robe said, “I want the stick.”

Who acts: old man, sweat, New Robe · What happens: try, persuade, make, roll, entreat, select · To what, where: man, different choice, brow, young man, something, stick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, sweat, New Robe), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 tried	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 power	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 power	det:predet
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 power	nmod:poss
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 persuade	mark
12	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 persuade	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 persuade	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 choice	det
17	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 choice	amod
18	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rolled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rolled	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sweat	det
22	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rolled	nsubj
23	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	parataxis
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 brow	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brow	nmod:poss
26	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rolled	obl
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 entreated	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 entreated	nsubj
29	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rolled	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entreated	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 select	mark
34	select	select	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 entreated	advcl
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 select	obj
36	else	else	ADV	_	35 something	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 said	cc
39	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	43 said	advmod
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 said	advmod
41	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 Robe	amod
42	Robe	Robe	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 said	nsubj
43	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 want	punct
45	“	"	PUNCT	_	47 want	punct
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 want	nsubj
47	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 said	ccomp
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 stick	det
49	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 want	obj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	43 said	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	the old man				with man's power	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	persuade not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	man				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	a different choice				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product
4	roll	past	the sweat			man's brow		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from brow=Trajectory
5	entreat	past	sweat		the young man			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
6	select	to-infinitive	sweat not said here	something				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	New Robe				once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	want in a quote	present	New Robe = robe	the stick				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stick=Theme

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, The Beaver Stick, sentence 121