The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 5

None knew better than the poor, the blind, and the crippled, that the parfleches piled up behind the beds, and filling the space near the doorway, contained stores of fat dried meat, rich pemmican, marrow fat, dried berries and roots, to a share of which they were always welcome.

Who acts: None, parfleches · What happens: know, pile up, fill, contain, dry, be · To what, where: parfleches, beds, space, doorway, stores

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 (None, parfleches), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 poor	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 poor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poor	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blind	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blind	det
9	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poor	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crippled	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 crippled	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crippled	det
13	crippled	crippled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 piled	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 piled	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 parfleches	det
17	parfleches	parflech	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 piled	nsubj:pass
18	piled	pile	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 crippled	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 piled	compound:prt
20	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 beds	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beds	det
22	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 piled	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 filling	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 filling	cc
25	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 knew	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 space	det
27	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 filling	obj
28	near	near	ADP	_	30 doorway	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 doorway	det
30	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 filling	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 contained	punct
32	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 knew	parataxis
33	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 contained	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 fat	case
35	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stores	nmod
36	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 meat	amod
37	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fat	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 pemmican	punct
39	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 pemmican	amod
40	pemmican	pemmican	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meat	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fat	punct
42	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fat	compound
43	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meat	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 berries	punct
45	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 berries	amod
46	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 meat	conj
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 roots	cc
48	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 berries	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 share	punct
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 share	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 share	det
52	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 contained	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 which	case
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 welcome	obl
55	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 welcome	nsubj
56	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 welcome	cop
57	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	58 welcome	advmod
58	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 share	acl:relcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	None				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	pile up	participle · passive		the parfleches	the beds		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme behind bed=Destination
3	fill	gerund	None not said here	the space	the doorway		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient
4	contain	past		stores of fat and dried meat and rich pemmican and marrow fat and dried berries and roots		to a share	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot store=Theme
5	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	is	past	parfleches = parflech			of a share; always, welcome property	tree rules

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 5

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 5