The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 19
“Yes,” the sick man replied, “the night before this affliction came upon me, I had a terrible dream; you remember that I killed two Crow warriors this spring when we had the battle with them at the Yellow River.
Who acts: sick man, night, you, we · What happens: reply, come, have, remember, kill · To what, where: terrible dream, two Crow warriors, battle, Yellow River · 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 (sick man, night, you, we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 affliction | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 affliction | det |
| 15 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 night | nmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | advcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 came | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dream | det |
| 23 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dream | amod |
| 24 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 remember | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 remember | nsubj |
| 27 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 killed | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 killed | nsubj |
| 30 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 remember | ccomp |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 warriors | nummod |
| 32 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 warriors | compound |
| 33 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 killed | obj |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 spring | det |
| 35 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 warriors | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 had | advmod |
| 37 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 killed | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 battle | det |
| 40 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | obj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 battle | nmod |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 River | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 River | det |
| 45 | Yellow | Yellow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 River | compound |
| 46 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 had | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the sick man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | the night before this affliction | upon the sick man = man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Location | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | past | the sick man = man | a terrible dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient | ||||
| 4 | remember in a quote | present | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | past | the sick man = man | two Crow warriors this spring | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | past | we | the battle | the Yellow River | with dreams = dream | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=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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