The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 35
At times he picked up the long stem and blew through it on the inflamed eyes, calling out at the end of every breath: “Whooh!
Who acts: Such · What happens: pick up, blow, inflame, call out · To what, where: long stem, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 times | case |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 picked | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picked | nsubj |
| 4 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stem | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stem | amod |
| 8 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picked | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picked | conj |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 blew | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eyes | det |
| 15 | inflamed | inflame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 eyes | amod |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blew | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 calling | punct |
| 18 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 picked | advcl |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 calling | compound:prt |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 calling | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 breath | case |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 breath | det |
| 25 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Whooh | punct |
| 28 | Whooh | whooh | INTJ | _ | 4 picked | discourse |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Such | the long stem | time | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Topic | |||
| 2 | blow | past | Such not said here | spirit | on the inflamed eyes | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | inflame | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | gerund | Such not said here | at the end of every breath | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at end=Stimulus |
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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