The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 56
One thing that kept him up was the thought that by some good chance he might, some day, be cured.
Who acts: One thing, good chance · What happens: keep up, be, cure · To what, where: Pi, thought
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 (One thing, good chance), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 thing | nummod |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thing | acl:relcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 kept | compound:prt |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thought | det |
| 9 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 cured | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 chance | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 chance | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chance | amod |
| 14 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cured | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 might | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 chance | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 day | punct |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chance | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chance | punct |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 cured | aux:pass |
| 22 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 thought | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep up | past | One thing | Pi | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | One thing | the thought | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cure | infinitive · passive | some good chance and some day | the thought | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer that=Source |
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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