The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 26
He opened the medicine bag and took from it a long pipe stem painted red and black, to which was tied a small buckskin sack, ornamented with the feathers of certain small birds, and curious claws and teeth.
Who acts: man, long pipe stem, curious claws · What happens: open, take, paint, tie, ornament, tooth · To what, where: medicine bag, bag, small buckskin sack
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, long pipe stem, curious claws), 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 | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bag | det |
| 4 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bag | compound |
| 5 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stem | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stem | amod |
| 12 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stem | compound |
| 13 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 painted | nsubj |
| 14 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 painted | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 black | cc |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 red | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tied | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 tied | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tied | aux:pass |
| 22 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 painted | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sack | det |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sack | amod |
| 25 | buckskin | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sack | compound |
| 26 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tied | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ornamented | punct |
| 28 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sack | acl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 feathers | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 feathers | det |
| 31 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ornamented | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 birds | case |
| 33 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 birds | amod |
| 34 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 birds | amod |
| 35 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 feathers | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 teeth | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 teeth | cc |
| 38 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 claws | amod |
| 39 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 teeth | nsubj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 teeth | cc |
| 41 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | man | the medicine bag | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | man not said here | bag | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | paint | past | a long pipe stem | red property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tie | past · passive | a long pipe stem not said here | a small buckskin sack | which obl | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: sack=Patient to which=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | ornament | participle | a small buckskin sack not said here | with the feathers of certain small birds | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feather=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tooth | curious claws | tree rules |
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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