The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 6
The couple had no children, and they said that unless a crowd of guests feasted and smoked in their lodge of an evening, they felt lonesome.
Who acts: couple, children · What happens: have, say, feast, smoke, feel · To what, where: children, lodge, lonesome · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (couple, children), 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 | 2 couple | det |
| 2 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 feasted | mark |
| 11 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 13 crowd | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crowd | det |
| 13 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feasted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 guests | case |
| 15 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crowd | nmod |
| 16 | feasted | feast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 smoked | cc |
| 18 | smoked | smoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 feasted | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 lodge | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 smoked | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 evening | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 evening | det |
| 24 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lodge | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 felt | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 felt | nsubj |
| 27 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 28 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 felt | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the couple | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | children = child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | feast | participle | unless a crowd of guests | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smoke | participle | children's lodge of a evening | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | feel | past | children = child | lonesome | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lonesome=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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