The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 64
A friend dropped in to share it and tell of a recent exciting bear hunt.
Who acts: friend · What happens: drop in, share, tell · To what, where: friend · 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 (friend), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 friend | det |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 dropped | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 share | mark |
| 6 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dropped | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 share | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tell | cc |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 share | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hunt | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hunt | det |
| 12 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hunt | amod |
| 13 | exciting | exciting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hunt | amod |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hunt | compound |
| 15 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop in | past | a friend | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | share | to-infinitive | a friend not said here | friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a friend not said here | of a recent exciting bear hunt | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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