The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 111
We live to great age, but our eyes remain strong and clear to the very end.”
Who acts: We, eyes · What happens: live, remain
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 (We, eyes), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 age | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 age | amod |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remain | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 remain | cc |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remain | nsubj |
| 10 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remain | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clear | cc |
| 13 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strong | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 end | advmod |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strong | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | We | to great age | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | present | our eyes | strong property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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