The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 11
“Oh, that is nothing,” Í-kai-si said to him, “the hard wind which you have been out in all day has made them a little sore.
Who acts: that, Í si · What happens: be, say, make · To what, where: nothing, hard wind, Pi · 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 (that, Í si), 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 | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 nothing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 nothing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nothing | cop |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 9 | Í | Í | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 si | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Í | punct |
| 11 | kai | kai | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 Í | dep |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 si | punct |
| 13 | si | si | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wind | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wind | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wind | det |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wind | amod |
| 21 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 made | obj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 made | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 made | aux:pass |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 been | compound:prt |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 day | case |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obl |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | aux |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wind | acl:relcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 sore | det |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sore | amod |
| 35 | sore | sore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Í si | the hard wind | Pi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | make in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Pi | day | the hard wind obj; ōk obj; a little sore obj | tree rules |
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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