The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 38
“Oh,” Pi-waṕ-ōk replied, “I can’t say that I see any plainer, but I think my eyes are not so painful.”
Who acts: I, eyes · What happens: reply, not say, see, think, not be · To what, where: waṕ ōk, plainer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, eyes), 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 | _ | 9 ōk | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 ōk | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | Pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ōk | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pi | punct |
| 7 | waṕ | waṕ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ōk | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ōk | punct |
| 9 | ōk | ōk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ōk | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 14 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 say | advmod |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 replied | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 see | nsubj |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | ccomp |
| 20 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 plainer | det |
| 21 | plainer | plainer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 think | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 think | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 think | nsubj |
| 25 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ōk | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 painful | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 painful | cop |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 painful | advmod |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 painful | advmod |
| 31 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 think | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 painful | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 ōk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | waṕ ōk Pi not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert in a quote | can | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | I | any plainer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plainer=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | my eyes | painful property | 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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