The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 117
Here is a feather from my tail; take it, and keep it carefully, and you shall live to old age.
Who acts: feather, you · What happens: be, take, keep, live · To what, where: tail
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 (feather, you), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feather | det |
| 4 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 tail | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tail | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feather | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 take | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 keep | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 keep | obj |
| 15 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 13 keep | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 live | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 live | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 live | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 live | aux |
| 20 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 take | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 age | case |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 age | amod |
| 23 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 live | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a feather from my tail | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | tail | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | tail | carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | shall | you | to old age | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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