The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 53

They did not forget how generous the blind one had been in his prosperous days, and they came daily to relieve his poverty with gifts of meat, and even tongues and pemmican.

Who acts: people · What happens: not forget, be, come, relieve, gift · To what, where: poverty, meat

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 (people), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forget	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 forget	advmod
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 generous	advmod
6	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forget	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
8	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 generous	appos
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 days	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 days	cop
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 days	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 days	nmod:poss
14	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 days	amod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	parataxis
20	daily	daily	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 relieve	mark
22	relieve	relieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 came	xcomp
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 poverty	nmod:poss
24	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 relieve	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 gifts	case
26	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 relieve	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 meat	case
28	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gifts	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tongues	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 tongues	cc
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 tongues	advmod
32	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forget	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pemmican	cc
34	pemmican	pemmican	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tongues	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 forget	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not forget	past · do-support	people			tongues and pemmican parataxis; generous property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect			in man's prosperous days	man nmod:poss	tree rules
3	come	past	people			daily property	tree rules
4	relieve	to-infinitive	people not said here	man's poverty		with gifts of meat	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus poverty=Experiencer
5	gift			meat			nom gift «possession transitive»: of=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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 53

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The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 53