The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 70
Your only chance is to try to get away from here in the night and seek your people.
Who acts: only chance, Your · What happens: be, get away, seek, chance · To what, where: people
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 (only chance, Your), 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 | 3 chance | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chance | amod |
| 3 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 try | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 try | mark |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 try | xcomp |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 here | case |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 away | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 seek | cc |
| 16 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 people | nmod:poss |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 seek | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your only chance | try property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get away not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your only chance not said here | night | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | Your only chance not said here | your people | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | chance | Your | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=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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