The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 141
He was the greatest healer the Bloods have ever had.
Who acts: Í, Bloods · What happens: be, have · To what, where: greatest healer
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 (Í, Bloods), 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 | 5 healer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 healer | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 healer | det |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 healer | amod |
| 5 | healer | healer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Bloods | det |
| 7 | Bloods | blood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 had | aux |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 had | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 healer | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 healer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Í = í | the greatest healer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present · perfect | the Bloods | the greatest healer not said here | ever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent healer=Patient |
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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