The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 1
Pi-waṕ-ōk, Flint-knife, was a Blood warrior; he was brave and ambitious, seldom passing a day idly in his lodge.
Who acts: waṕ ōk, he · What happens: be, pass · To what, where: Blood warrior, lodge
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waṕ ōk, he), 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 | Pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waṕ | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pi | punct |
| 3 | waṕ | waṕ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ōk | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ōk | punct |
| 5 | ōk | ōk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warrior | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knife | punct |
| 7 | Flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knife | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Flint | punct |
| 9 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ōk | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ōk | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 warrior | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 warrior | det |
| 13 | Blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warrior | compound |
| 14 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 brave | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 brave | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brave | cop |
| 18 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 warrior | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ambitious | cc |
| 20 | ambitious | ambitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 brave | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 passing | punct |
| 22 | seldom | seldom | ADV | _ | 23 passing | advmod |
| 23 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 brave | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passing | obj |
| 26 | idly | idly | ADV | _ | 23 passing | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 lodge | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 warrior | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | waṕ ōk and Flint knife | a Blood warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | he | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | he not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pass | gerund | he not said here | his lodge | day | idly, seldom property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in lodge=Location |
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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