The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 127
“You are on the prairie at the top of the cliff,” the bird continued; “your friend is sitting away over there on a point.
Who acts: You, bird, friend · What happens: be, continue, sit away · To what, where: prairie, point · 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 (You, bird, friend), 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 | _ | 6 prairie | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 prairie | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 prairie | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 prairie | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prairie | det |
| 6 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 continued | ccomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 top | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prairie | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cliff | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cliff | det |
| 12 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 prairie | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 prairie | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 continued | nsubj |
| 17 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 continued | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 sitting | punct |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 sitting | aux |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 continued | advcl |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 sitting | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 26 there | advmod |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sitting | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 point | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 point | det |
| 29 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | the prairie | at the top of the cliff | tree rules | |||
| 2 | continue | past | the bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit away in a quote | present · progressive | your friend | a point; there | away property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on point=Location |
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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