The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], sentence 59
They counselled together to see what they should do, trying to decide what would be the best plan to get her back again.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: counsell, see, do, try, decide, be · To what, where: best plan, sister · 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 (brothers), 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 | 2 counselled | nsubj |
| 2 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 counselled | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 counselled | advcl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 trying | punct |
| 11 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 counselled | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 decide | mark |
| 13 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 trying | xcomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 plan | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 plan | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 plan | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plan | det |
| 18 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 plan | amod |
| 19 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 decide | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 get | mark |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 plan | acl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 get | obj |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 get | advmod |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 get | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 counselled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | counsell | past | brothers = brother | together property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | should | brothers = brother | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | try | gerund | brothers = brother not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | decide not said to happen | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | would | the best plan | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get back | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | sister | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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