The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 2
If not away on the war-path against some distant tribe, he was sure to be out hunting.
Who acts: he · What happens: be, hunt
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 (he), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 away | mark |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 away | advmod |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 sure | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 path | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 path | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 war | punct |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 away | obl |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 tribe | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 tribe | det |
| 11 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tribe | amod |
| 12 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 path | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 away | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sure | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sure | cop |
| 16 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 out | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 out | cop |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 out | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | he not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | he not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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