The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 116
“I cannot give you sight, but in other ways I can do much for you.
Who acts: bird · What happens: not give, do · To what, where: sight, you, other ways
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 ways | case |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ways | amod |
| 12 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 do | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 give | conj |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give in a quote | can | the bird = bird | sight | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | can | the bird = bird | other ways | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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