The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 12
I’ll stew some of those leaves my old grandmother used to say were good for the eyes, and after you have bathed them once or twice, no doubt you will see clearly again.”
Who acts: I, some, you, doubt · What happens: stew, use, say, be, bath, see · To what, where: old grandmother, ōk · 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 (I, some, you, doubt), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 stew | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stew | aux |
| 3 | stew | stew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 good | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 leaves | case |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 leaves | det |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grandmother | amod |
| 10 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaves | conj |
| 11 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 grandmother | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 used | xcomp |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 good | cop |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stew | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eyes | det |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 good | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bathed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bathed | cc |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 24 bathed | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 bathed | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 bathed | aux |
| 24 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 stew | parataxis |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bathed | obj |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 bathed | advmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 twice | cc |
| 28 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 once | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 doubt | det |
| 31 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | nsubj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 see | aux |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 bathed | conj |
| 35 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 34 see | advmod |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 see | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stew | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stew | future | I | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | use | participle | my old grandmother not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | some of that leaves and my old grandmother | for the eyes; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bath | present · perfect | you | ōk | once property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | see | future | no doubt | again | you nsubj; clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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