The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 39
“Ah!” the medicine man said, “that is but natural; you cannot recover at once; when we have driven the ghost away for good, then it will still take time for the eyes to become clear.”
Who acts: medicine man, that, you, we, it · What happens: say, be, not recover, drive away, take, become · To what, where: ghost · 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 (medicine man, that, you, we), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | compound |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 natural | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 natural | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 natural | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 natural | cop |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 natural | cc |
| 14 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 recover | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 recover | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 recover | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 recover | advmod |
| 19 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 recover | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 driven | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 driven | advmod |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 driven | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 driven | aux |
| 26 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 recover | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ghost | det |
| 28 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 driven | obj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 driven | advmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 good | case |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 driven | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 take | punct |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 take | advmod |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 take | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 take | aux |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 37 take | advmod |
| 37 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 recover | parataxis |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 take | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 eyes | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 eyes | det |
| 41 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 take | obl |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 become | mark |
| 43 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 take | advcl |
| 44 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 become | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the medicine man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | that | natural property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not recover in a quote | can | you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drive away in a quote | present · perfect | we | the ghost | for good; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Theme | |||
| 5 | take in a quote | future | it | then; still; time | for the eyes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for eye=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | become in a quote | to-infinitive | clear property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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