The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 67
Surely it knew how to keep the eyes bright and clear, how to cure them if they became diseased.
Who acts: opportunity · What happens: know, keep, cure, disease · To what, where: eyes
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 (opportunity), 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 | Surely | surely | ADV | _ | 3 knew | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 keep | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 keep | mark |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 keep | obj |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 clear | cc |
| 11 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bright | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cure | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 cure | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cure | mark |
| 15 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 keep | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cure | obj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 diseased | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 diseased | nsubj |
| 19 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 diseased | aux:pass |
| 20 | diseased | disease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 cure | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | opportunity | surely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | opportunity not said here | the eyes | bright property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 3 | cure | to-infinitive | opportunity not said here | eyes = eye | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Source | ||||
| 4 | disease a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | eyes = eye | 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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