The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 24
“That explains it all; the ghost of some enemy you have killed is near here, and is blinding you in some mysterious way.
Who acts: That, enemy, ghost · What happens: explain, kill, be, blind, ghost · To what, where: little, you, mysterious way, enemy
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 (That, enemy, ghost), 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 | _ | 3 explains | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 explains | nsubj |
| 3 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 explains | obj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 3 explains | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 here | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ghost | det |
| 8 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 here | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 enemy | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 enemy | det |
| 11 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ghost | nmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 killed | aux |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 enemy | acl:relcl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 here | cop |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 here | case |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 explains | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blinding | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 blinding | cc |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 blinding | aux |
| 21 | blinding | blind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 explains | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 blinding | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 way | det |
| 25 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 way | amod |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 blinding | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert in a quote | present | That | little | all property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | kill in a quote | present · perfect · passive | some enemy not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the ghost of some enemy | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | blind in a quote | present · progressive | That not said here | you | some mysterious way | tree rules | |||
| 5 | ghost in a quote | some enemy | nom ghost «cognition transitive»: of=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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