The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 7
So for many years they lived, happy and prosperous, and then a great trouble came on them.
Who acts: children, great trouble · What happens: live, come · To what, where: many years
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 (children, great trouble), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 happy | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 years | amod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 happy | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 years | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 years | punct |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prosperous | cc |
| 10 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 happy | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 came | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 trouble | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 trouble | amod |
| 16 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happy | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | children = child | many years not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme year=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a great trouble | then | on children = child | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location |
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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