The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 139
Ioí tried to stop her younger brother, but he would not listen to her.
Who acts: Ioí, Bluejay · What happens: try, stop, not listen · To what, where: younger brother, woman
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ioí, Bluejay), 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 | Ioí | Ioí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stop | mark |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 brother | amod |
| 7 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 listen | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 listen | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 listen | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 listen | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 listen | advmod |
| 13 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 listen | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Ioí | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ioí not said here | woman's younger brother | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality brother=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not listen | would | Bluejay | woman | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=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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