The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 135

They told her that the camp was only a little way above on the river, and offered her a horse to ride, but she asked them to go on and tell her mother to come after her with a travois, for she felt too sore to ride.

Who acts: people, camp, woman · What happens: tell, be, offer, ride, ask, go on · To what, where: woman, little way, river, horse, people, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, camp, woman), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 way	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 camp	det
6	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 way	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 way	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
12	above	above	ADV	_	11 way	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 offered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 offered	cc
18	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 offered	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 offered	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ride	mark
23	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 offered	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asked	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 asked	cc
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asked	nsubj
27	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asked	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 asked	xcomp
31	on	on	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tell	cc
33	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 go	conj
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mother	nmod:poss
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tell	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 come	mark
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 tell	ccomp
38	after	after	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 come	obl
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 travois	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 travois	det
42	travois	travois	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 felt	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	46 felt	mark
45	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 felt	nsubj
46	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 come	conj
47	too	too	ADV	_	48 sore	advmod
48	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 felt	xcomp
49	to	to	PART	_	50 ride	mark
50	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 sore	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	people		woman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	past	the camp	a little way		the river		above property	tree rules
3	offer	past	people not said here	a horse	woman				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal horse=Theme
4	ride	to-infinitive	people not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	past	woman		people				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go on not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive	woman not said here		woman's mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
8	come not said to happen	to-infinitive					after woman	with a travois	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	feel	past	woman					sore property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	ride	to-infinitive	woman not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 135