The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 135
After lighting your pipe, point it first to Atíus Tiráwat, and then blow a few whiffs to me.
Who acts: you · What happens: light, point, blow · To what, where: pipe, den, Atíus, few whiffs, me
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 lighting | mark |
| 2 | lighting | light | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 point | advcl |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pipe | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lighting | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lighting | punct |
| 6 | point | point | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 point | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 point | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Atíus | case |
| 10 | Atíus | Atíus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 point | obl |
| 11 | Tiráwat | Tiráwat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Atíus | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blow | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blow | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 blow | advmod |
| 15 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 point | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 whiffs | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 whiffs | amod |
| 18 | whiffs | whiff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 blow | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 blow | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 point | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | gerund | you not said here | your pipe | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product | ||||
| 2 | point | imperative | you not said here | den | Atíus | first property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to atíus=Recipient | ||
| 3 | blow | infinitive | you not said here | a few whiffs | me | then | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whiff=Patient to i=Recipient |
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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