The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 32
Intercede for us all here to-day; ask the Sun to have pity on us all; to grant us long life, good health, and sufficient food.”
Who acts: you · What happens: intercede, ask, have, grant · To what, where: sufficient food, Sun, pity, long life, us
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 (you), 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 | Intercede | intercede | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 us | case |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Intercede | obl |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Intercede | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 here | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Intercede | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sun | det |
| 12 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | xcomp |
| 15 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 us | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | obl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 grant | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 grant | mark |
| 21 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Intercede | conj |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 grant | obj |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 life | amod |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grant | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 health | punct |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 health | amod |
| 27 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 life | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 food | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 food | cc |
| 30 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 food | amod |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Intercede | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Intercede | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Intercede | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intercede | imperative | you not said here | sufficient food | here | for us | tree rules | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | the Sun | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent sun=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | pity | on us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||
| 4 | grant | to-infinitive | you not said here | long life and good health | us | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal life=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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