The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 145
His relations tried to cure him, and pretty soon the brother-in-law got well.
Who acts: relations, brother · What happens: try, cure, get · To what, where: Bluejay
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 (relations, brother), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 relations | nmod:poss |
| 2 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 cure | mark |
| 5 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cure | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 got | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 got | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 brother | det |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 law | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 law | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | conj |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 got | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Bluejay's relations | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cure not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bluejay's relations not said here | Bluejay | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source | ||||
| 3 | get | past | the brother and law | soon, well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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