The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 43
One demanded two horses, another a gun and blanket, another three horses; another would not step inside the lodge until he had been paid ten horses.
Who acts: One, another · What happens: demand, not step, pay · To what, where: two horses, lodge, One
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 (One, another), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 demanded | nsubj |
| 2 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 horses | nummod |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 demanded | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gun | punct |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 gun | det |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gun | det |
| 8 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horses | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blanket | cc |
| 10 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gun | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 horses | punct |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 horses | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 horses | nummod |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 horses | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 step | punct |
| 16 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 19 step | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 step | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 step | advmod |
| 19 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 demanded | parataxis |
| 20 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 22 lodge | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lodge | det |
| 22 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 step | obl |
| 23 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 paid | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 paid | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 paid | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 paid | aux:pass |
| 27 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 step | advcl |
| 28 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 horses | nummod |
| 29 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 paid | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | One | two horses and another three horses | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horse=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | not step | would | another | the lodge | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside lodge=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | pay | past · perfect · passive | One | ten horses obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient horse=Asset |
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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