The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 108
Then the blind one told of his affliction, and how through great danger and sore distress of mind he had climbed the cliff, hoping the great bird might cure him.
Who acts: Pi, great bird · What happens: tell, climb, hope, cure, afflict, distress · To what, where: blind one, cliff, great danger, Pi, mind · 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 (Pi, great bird), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 one | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 one | det |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 one | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 affliction | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 affliction | nmod:poss |
| 8 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 climbed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 climbed | cc |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 climbed | advmod |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 danger | case |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 danger | amod |
| 14 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 climbed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 distress | cc |
| 16 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 distress | amod |
| 17 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 danger | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 distress | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 climbed | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 climbed | aux |
| 22 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 one | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cliff | det |
| 24 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 climbed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hoping | punct |
| 26 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 climbed | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bird | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bird | amod |
| 29 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cure | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 cure | aux |
| 31 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 hoping | ccomp |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 cure | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | the blind one not said here | of Pi's affliction | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | climb | past · perfect | Pi | the cliff | great danger and sore distress of mind | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through danger=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | hope | gerund | Pi not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cure | might | the great bird | Pi | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source | ||||
| 6 | afflict | Pi | nom affliction «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | distress | mind | nom distress «feeling transitive»: of=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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