The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 51
She worked hard to provide things as of old, by tanning for a share the hides and skins brought in by hunters.
Who acts: wife · What happens: work, provide, tan, bring in · To what, where: things, hides
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 (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 worked | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 provide | mark |
| 5 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 worked | advcl |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 provide | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 9 old | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 provide | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tanning | punct |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 tanning | mark |
| 12 | tanning | tan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 worked | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 share | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 share | det |
| 15 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tanning | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hides | det |
| 17 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 share | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 skins | cc |
| 19 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hides | conj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hides | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 brought | compound:prt |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 hunters | case |
| 23 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | wife | hard property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | provide | to-infinitive | wife not said here | things | as old | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition thing=Theme | |||
| 3 | tan | gerund | wife not said here | for a share and the hides and skins | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bring in | participle | the hides and skins not said here | by hunters | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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