The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 139
As the whitehead had said, Pi-waṕ-ōk became a great medicine man and healer of the sick, and, through the secret power that the bird gave him, he was able to do many strange things.
Who acts: Pi waṕ ōk, bird, man · What happens: say, become, give, be, do · To what, where: whitehead, great medicine man, secret power, man, many strange things · 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 (Pi waṕ ōk, bird, man), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 said | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whitehead | det |
| 3 | whitehead | whitehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 became | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 7 | Pi | Pi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ōk | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pi | punct |
| 9 | waṕ | waṕ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ōk | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 waṕ | punct |
| 11 | ōk | ōk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | nsubj |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 15 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | compound |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 became | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 healer | cc |
| 18 | healer | healer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sick | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sick | det |
| 21 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 healer | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 power | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 power | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 power | punct |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 power | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 power | det |
| 27 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 power | amod |
| 28 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 gave | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bird | det |
| 31 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | nsubj |
| 32 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 power | acl:relcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 gave | iobj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 able | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 able | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 able | cop |
| 37 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 do | mark |
| 39 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 able | xcomp |
| 40 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 things | amod |
| 41 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 things | amod |
| 42 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 do | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the whitehead | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | become | past | Pi waṕ ōk | a great medicine man and healer of the sick and the secret power | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the bird | the secret power not said here | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | man | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | man not said here | many strange things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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