The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 66
All at once he realized that here, perhaps, was the opportunity he had long sought; here, close by, was a “little brother,” as his fathers called them, more keen-eyed than any other living thing.
Who acts: Í, All, opportunity, fathers · What happens: realize, be, seek, call · To what, where: opportunity, little brother, brothers · 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 (Í, All, opportunity, fathers), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 opportunity | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 realized | mark |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 realized | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 realized | nsubj |
| 5 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 All | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 here | mark |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 realized | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 perhaps | punct |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 here | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 All | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 opportunity | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 opportunity | det |
| 13 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brother | nsubj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sought | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sought | aux |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 sought | advmod |
| 17 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 opportunity | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 here | punct |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 opportunity | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 close | punct |
| 21 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 here | obl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 close | fixed |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 opportunity | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 brother | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 brother | det |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 brother | amod |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 called | mark |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 33 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 called | nsubj |
| 34 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 brother | advcl |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 called | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 eyed | punct |
| 37 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 eyed | advmod |
| 38 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 eyed | amod |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 keen | punct |
| 40 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 brother | conj |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 45 thing | case |
| 42 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 thing | det |
| 43 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 thing | amod |
| 44 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 thing | compound |
| 45 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 eyed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realize | past | Í = í | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | All | the opportunity | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek | past · perfect | Í = í | the opportunity not said here | long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | the opportunity | a little brother | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | call speech: assert | past | Í's fathers | brothers = brother | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | be | the opportunity not said here | than any other living thing | tree rules |
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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