The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 17
Seating himself by the patient, he asked many questions as he examined the swollen eyes.
Who acts: man · What happens: seat, ask, examine · To what, where: man, many questions, swollen eyes
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 (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 | Seating | seat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Seating | obj |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 patient | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 patient | det |
| 5 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seating | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seating | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 questions | amod |
| 10 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 examined | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 examined | nsubj |
| 13 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eyes | det |
| 15 | swollen | swollen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 examined | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | gerund | man not said here | man | by the patient | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | man | many questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | examine | past | man | the swollen eyes | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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