The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 137
The way home was easy, for they followed the rim of the valley to a point beyond the cliff, and then descended a sloping hill.
Who acts: way, birds · What happens: be, follow, descend, slope · To what, where: rim, point, sloping hill
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 (way, birds), 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 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 way | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 followed | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 followed | case |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 followed | nsubj |
| 9 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rim | det |
| 11 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 followed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 valley | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 valley | det |
| 14 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rim | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 point | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 point | det |
| 17 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 followed | obl |
| 18 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 20 cliff | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cliff | det |
| 20 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 point | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 descended | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 descended | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 descended | advmod |
| 24 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hill | det |
| 26 | sloping | slope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 hill | amod |
| 27 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 descended | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the way | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | birds = bird | the rim of the valley | a point beyond the cliff | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rim=Theme to point=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | descend | past | the way not said here | a sloping hill | then | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme | |||
| 4 | slope | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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