The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 134
How could you climb that awful cliff and still be blind?”
Who acts: you · What happens: climb, be · To what, where: awful cliff
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), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 climb | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 climb | nsubj |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 cliff | det |
| 6 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cliff | amod |
| 7 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climb | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blind | cc |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 blind | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 blind | cop |
| 11 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 climb | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | could | you | that awful cliff | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cliff=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | you not said here | still | blind property | 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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