The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 100

If the limb on which the nest was built gave way from his added weight, he knew that he would fall upon the rocks far below, a crushed and shapeless mass.

Who acts: limb · What happens: build, give, add, know, fall, crush · To what, where: nest, limb, way, added weight, crushed shapeless mass, rocks · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (limb), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 gave	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 limb	det
3	limb	limb	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 built	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nest	det
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 built	aux:pass
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 limb	acl:relcl
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 knew	advcl
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 weight	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 weight	nmod:poss
14	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 weight	amod
15	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 fall	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fall	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fall	aux
22	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knew	ccomp
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 rocks	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rocks	det
25	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fall	obl
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 below	advmod
27	below	below	ADV	_	22 fall	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mass	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mass	det
30	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 mass	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 crushed	cc
32	shapeless	shapeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 mass	amod
33	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fall	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		the nest	the limb		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on which=Source
2	give a condition, not said to happen	past	the limb	way	limb's added weight		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	add speech: assert	participle					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	know	past	limb				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	fall	would	limb	a crushed shapeless mass	the rocks	below property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon rock=Location
6	crush	participle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: 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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 100

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 100