The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 122

Then the bird began, and through the long morning taught Pi-waṕ-ōk, showing him the secret of many wonderful things, telling him how and what to use for certain ailments.

Who acts: bird, Pi · What happens: begin, be, show, tell, use · To what, where: waṕ ōk, secret, Pi · 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 (bird, Pi), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ōk	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ōk	cc
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 morning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ōk	obl
11	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ōk	cop
12	Pi	Pi	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 ōk	nsubj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Pi	punct
14	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ōk	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 ōk	punct
16	ōk	ōk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 showing	punct
18	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 showing	iobj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 secret	det
21	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 showing	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 things	case
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 secret	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 telling	punct
27	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 showing	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 telling	iobj
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 use	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 use	cc
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 use	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 use	mark
33	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 telling	xcomp
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 ailments	case
35	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ailments	amod
36	ailments	ailment	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 use	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the bird			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	participle	Pi	waṕ ōk		morning		tree rules
3	show	gerund	the bird not said here	the secret of many wonderful things	Pi			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient secret=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	gerund	the bird not said here		Pi			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	the bird not said here				for certain ailments; what obj	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent what=Theme for ailment=Eventuality

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 122

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 122