The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 10
“When I try to see something far away, they fill with tears and everything becomes indistinct.”
Who acts: Pi, ōk, everything · What happens: try, see, fill, become · To what, where: something
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 (Pi, ōk, everything), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fill | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 try | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fill | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fill | nsubj |
| 12 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tears | case |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fill | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 becomes | cc |
| 16 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 becomes | nsubj |
| 17 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fill | conj |
| 18 | indistinct | indistinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 becomes | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fill | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | present | Pi | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | see not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Pi not said here | something | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | fill in a quote | present | ōk | with tears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | become in a quote | present | everything | indistinct property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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