The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 110
None of my kind could make you see again, for we have never had occasion to treat the eyes.
Who acts: None, you, we · What happens: make, see, not have, treat · To what, where: you, occasion, eyes
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 (None, you, we), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 make | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 kind | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 kind | nmod:poss |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 None | nmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 make | parataxis |
| 16 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 treat | mark |
| 18 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 eyes | det |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 treat | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | could | None of my kind | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not have | present · perfect | we | occasion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | treat | to-infinitive | we not said here | the eyes | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eye=Recipient |
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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