The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 44
One by one Pi-waṕ-ōk’s herd changed hands; little by little the store of soft robes and food disappeared, and the lodge became bare.
Who acts: One herd, food, lodge · What happens: change, disappear, become · To what, where: hands, soft robes
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 herd, food, lodge), 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 | 10 herd | nummod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ōk | nummod |
| 4 | Pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waṕ | 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 | 10 herd | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 ōk | case |
| 10 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 changed | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 little | punct |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 store | case |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 store | amod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 store | det |
| 18 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 robes | case |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 robes | amod |
| 21 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 store | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 disappeared | cc |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 disappeared | nsubj |
| 24 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 robes | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 became | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 became | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lodge | det |
| 28 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 became | nsubj |
| 29 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 changed | conj |
| 30 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 became | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | one waṕ ōk's One herd | hands | by the little store of soft robes; little obl:unmarked | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | disappear | past | food | soft robes not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the lodge | bare 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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