The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 65
Pi-waṕ-ōk scarcely heard him, for he was still thinking of the great bird swinging so strong and free in the blue sky above.
Who acts: waṕ ōk, Í, great bird · What happens: hear, think, swing · To what, where: Í, strong
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 (waṕ ōk, Í, great bird), 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 | Pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waṕ | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pi | punct |
| 3 | waṕ | waṕ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ōk | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ōk | punct |
| 5 | ōk | ōk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 7 heard | advmod |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinking | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 thinking | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thinking | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thinking | aux |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 thinking | advmod |
| 14 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 heard | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bird | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bird | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bird | amod |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thinking | obl |
| 19 | swinging | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 bird | acl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 strong | advmod |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 swinging | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 free | cc |
| 23 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 strong | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 sky | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sky | det |
| 26 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sky | amod |
| 27 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strong | obl |
| 28 | above | above | ADV | _ | 27 sky | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | waṕ ōk | Í = í | scarcely property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Í = í | still | of the great bird | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | swing | gerund | the great bird not said here | strong in the blue sky | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent strong=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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