The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 34
He knelt beside Pi-waṕ-ōk, and began an ancient medicine song, shaking his rattles and motioning the unseen spirit to depart.
Who acts: Such · What happens: kneel, begin, shake, motion, depart, rattle · To what, where: Pi waṕ ōk, ancient medicine song, rattles, unseen spirit
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 (Such), 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 knelt | nsubj |
| 2 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 ōk | case |
| 4 | Pi | Pi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ōk | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pi | punct |
| 6 | waṕ | waṕ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ōk | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 waṕ | punct |
| 8 | ōk | ōk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knelt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 began | cc |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knelt | conj |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 song | det |
| 13 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 song | amod |
| 14 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 song | compound |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shaking | punct |
| 17 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 began | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rattles | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rattles | rattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shaking | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 motioning | cc |
| 21 | motioning | motion | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 shaking | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spirit | det |
| 23 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spirit | amod |
| 24 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 motioning | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 depart | mark |
| 26 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 spirit | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | Such | Pi waṕ ōk | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside ōk=Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Such not said here | a ancient medicine song | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | Such's rattles | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rattle=Patient | |||||
| 4 | motion | gerund | the unseen spirit | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | depart | to-infinitive | the unseen spirit not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rattle | Such | nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=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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