The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 49
He visited but little from lodge to lodge, for he did not like to ask any one to lead him about here and there.
Who acts: man, one · What happens: visit, not like, ask, lead · To what, where: lodge, one, man
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, one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 visited | nsubj |
| 2 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 little | cc |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 visited | conj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 lodge | case |
| 6 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 visited | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lodge | case |
| 8 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lodge | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 like | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 like | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 like | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 visited | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 like | xcomp |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ask | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lead | mark |
| 20 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lead | obj |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 here | case |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 lead | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 there | cc |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 here | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | man | lodge to lodge | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | any one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lead not said to happen | to-infinitive | any one not said here | man | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme about here=Destination |
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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