The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 14
A great doctor was called in; he looked carefully at the red lids and the thin, ever-spreading film covering the eyes, and prescribed a steam bath, into which he threw certain herbs.
Who acts: inflammation, thin spreading film · What happens: call in, look, spread, cover, prescribe, throw · To what, where: great doctor, eyes, steam bath, certain herbs
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 (inflammation, thin spreading film), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 doctor | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 doctor | amod |
| 3 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 called | compound:prt |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | parataxis |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 looked | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 lids | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lids | det |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lids | amod |
| 14 | lids | lid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 looked | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 film | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 film | det |
| 17 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 film | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thin | punct |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 spreading | advmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ever | punct |
| 21 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 film | amod |
| 22 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lids | conj |
| 23 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 film | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eyes | det |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 covering | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 prescribed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 prescribed | cc |
| 28 | prescribed | prescribe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bath | det |
| 30 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bath | compound |
| 31 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 prescribed | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 threw | punct |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 threw | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 threw | nsubj |
| 36 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 prescribed | conj |
| 37 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 herbs | amod |
| 38 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 threw | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in speech: assert | past · passive | a great doctor | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | look | past | inflammation | at the red lids and the thin spreading film; carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread | gerund | ever | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cover | gerund | the thin spreading film not said here | the eyes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination | ||||
| 5 | prescribe | past | a steam bath | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | throw | past | inflammation | certain herbs | which obl | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herb=Theme into which=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/14/