The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 107
“I am their mother,” the bird replied, “and, since you have called upon me in their name, say what is in your mind; I will help you if I can.”
Who acts: mother, birds, your · What happens: be, reply, call, say, help, name · To what, where: mother, you, name · 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 (mother, birds, your), 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 | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mother | cop |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 called | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 18 called | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | aux |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 called | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 name | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 say | punct |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 called | parataxis |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 say | ccomp |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 what | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 mind | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mind | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 is | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 help | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 help | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 help | aux |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 help | obj |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 38 can | mark |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 can | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 help | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 help | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | ōk's mother = mother | ōk's mother | ōk nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | ōk's mother | the bird nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | call speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | you | birds's name | upon ōk's mother = mother | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | help in a quote | future | ōk's mother = mother | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | name in a quote | birds = bird | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | mind in a quote | your | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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