The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 106

“Hai-yu,” Pi-waṕ-ōk cried, “be you male or female, father or mother of these young birds, as you love them, pity me.”

Who acts: Hai, you · What happens: cry, be, love, pity · To what, where: ōk, Hai · 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 (Hai, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hai	punct
2	Hai	Hai	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cried	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 yu	punct
4	yu	yu	X	Foreign=Yes	2 Hai	dep
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yu	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hai	punct
7	Pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hai	appos
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Pi	punct
9	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ōk	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 waṕ	punct
11	ōk	ōk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	nsubj
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 male	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 male	punct
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 male	cop
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 male	nsubj
17	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cried	ccomp
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 female	cc
19	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 male	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 father	punct
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 male	conj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 mother	cc
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 father	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 birds	case
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 birds	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 birds	amod
27	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 father	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 love	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 love	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 love	nsubj
31	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cried	parataxis
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 love	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pity	punct
34	pity	pity	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 love	conj
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 pity	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Hai		waṕ ōk nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	infinitive	you		father of this young birds or mother conj; male property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		you not said here			tree rules
4	love in a quote	present	you	ōk		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	pity in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	Hai		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 106

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 106