The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 56

He told the brothers his story and said that he had tried hard to save the girl, but that he had not known that so many Buffalo would come.

Who acts: Buffalo, many Buffalo · What happens: tell, say, try, save, not know, come · To what, where: story, brothers, girl, Buffalo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buffalo, many Buffalo), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brothers	det
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	iobj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 story	nmod:poss
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 tried	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tried	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tried	aux
12	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 tried	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 save	mark
15	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 girl	det
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 save	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 known	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 known	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 known	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 known	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 known	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 known	advmod
24	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	parataxis
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 known	obj
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Buffalo	amod
28	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 come	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 known	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Buffalo	Buffalo's story	the brothers		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient story=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Buffalo not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	past · perfect	Buffalo			hard property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	save not said to happen	to-infinitive	Buffalo not said here	the girl			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
5	not know	past · perfect · passive		Buffalo		that obj	tree rules
6	come	would	many Buffalo				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 56

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Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 56