The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 59

The next morning, while yet the people slept and even the dogs were quiet, while not a stir of any kind broke the stillness of the camp, Pi-waṕ-ōk, restlessly turning on his bed, heard the shrill cry of a bald eagle (Ksiḱ-i-kinni, whitehead), now near, now far, as it circled around and around above the valley.

Who acts: people, dogs, stir, waṕ ōk, i, cry · What happens: sleep, be, break, turn, hear, kinni · To what, where: stillness, bed, shrill cry, valley, kind

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, dogs, stir, waṕ ōk), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slept	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 slept	punct
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 slept	mark
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	9 slept	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 slept	nsubj
9	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 quiet	cc
11	even	even	ADV	_	13 dogs	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dogs	det
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 quiet	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 quiet	cop
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 slept	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 broke	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	24 broke	mark
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 stir	advmod
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stir	det
20	stir	stir	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 broke	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 kind	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stir	nmod
24	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 slept	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 stillness	det
26	stillness	stillness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 broke	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 camp	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 camp	det
29	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stillness	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 ōk	punct
31	Pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waṕ	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Pi	punct
33	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ōk	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 ōk	punct
35	ōk	ōk	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stillness	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 turning	punct
37	restlessly	restlessly	ADV	_	38 turning	advmod
38	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 ōk	acl
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 bed	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 bed	nmod:poss
41	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turning	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 heard	punct
43	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 broke	parataxis
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 cry	det
45	shrill	shrill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 cry	amod
46	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 heard	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 eagle	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 eagle	det
49	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 eagle	amod
50	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cry	nmod
51	(	(	PUNCT	_	52 Ksiḱ	punct
52	Ksiḱ	Ksiḱ	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 eagle	appos
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 kinni	punct
54	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 kinni	nsubj
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	56 kinni	punct
56	kinni	kinni	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Ksiḱ	appos
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 whitehead	punct
58	whitehead	whitehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 Ksiḱ	appos
59	)	)	PUNCT	_	52 Ksiḱ	punct
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 near	punct
61	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	62 near	advmod
62	near	near	ADV	_	43 heard	advmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 far	punct
64	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	65 far	advmod
65	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	62 near	advmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 circled	punct
67	as	as	SCONJ	_	69 circled	mark
68	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 circled	nsubj
69	circled	circle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 heard	conj
70	around	around	ADV	_	69 circled	advmod
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 around	cc
72	around	around	ADV	_	70 around	conj
73	above	above	ADP	_	75 valley	case
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 valley	det
75	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 circled	obl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the people			morning		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the dogs				quiet property	tree rules
3	break	past	a stir of any kind	the stillness of the camp and waṕ ōk				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stillness=Patient
4	turn	gerund	waṕ ōk not said here		stir's bed		restlessly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on bed=Trajectory
5	hear	past		the shrill cry of a bald eagle		now; now	near property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus
6	kinni		i					tree rules
7	circle	past	cry		the valley		around property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8	stir			any kind				nom stir «state transitive»: of=patient
9	cry		a bald eagle					nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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 59