The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 121
The people will keep coming for you to go here and there to heal them and to practise your mysterious rites, and you will be so busy that you will forget your blindness.”
Who acts: people, you · What happens: keep, come, go, heal, practise, be · To what, where: people, mysterious rites, blindness
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 (people, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 keep | advcl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 go | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 there | cc |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 here | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 heal | mark |
| 14 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heal | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 practise | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 practise | mark |
| 18 | practise | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 heal | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 rites | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rites | amod |
| 21 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 practise | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 busy | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 busy | cc |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 busy | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 busy | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 busy | cop |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 busy | advmod |
| 28 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keep | parataxis |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 forget | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 forget | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 forget | aux |
| 32 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 busy | advcl |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 blindness | nmod:poss |
| 34 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forget | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | future | the people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the people not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | you | here; there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | heal | to-infinitive | you not said here | people | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | practise | to-infinitive | you not said here | your mysterious rites | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | future | you | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | forget | future | you | your blindness | tree rules |
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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