The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 9
They were hungry, and did not know what they should do.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, not know, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | 3 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hungry | cop |
| 3 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 know | cc |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hungry | conj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 do | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 know | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | people not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | should | people | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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