The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 140
He and his wife, Í-kai-si, lived to a great age.
Who acts: kai si · What happens: live · To what, where: kai si
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 (kai si), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 si | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wife | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 si | punct |
| 6 | Í | Í | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 si | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Í | punct |
| 8 | kai | kai | X | _ | 10 si | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 si | punct |
| 10 | si | si | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 si | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 age | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 age | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 age | amod |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 si | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | kai si man Í not said here | to a great age | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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