The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 48
It was hard for the man who had led such an active life to sit idly in his lodge day after day.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, lead, sit · To what, where: active life
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 (man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hard | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hard | cop |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hard | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 led | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 led | aux |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 life | det:predet |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 life | det |
| 12 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 life | amod |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sit | mark |
| 15 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 led | advcl |
| 16 | idly | idly | ADV | _ | 15 sit | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 day | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 day | compound |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sit | obl |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 day | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | for the man; hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lead | past · perfect | the man | such active life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | to-infinitive | the man not said here | day | idly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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