The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 70
“Yes,” the man replied, “it has a nest here, and just as I came in I saw it carrying something to feed its young.
Who acts: man, opportunity · What happens: reply, have, come, see, carry, feed · To what, where: nest, opportunity, something, young · 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 (man, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 nest | det |
| 13 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obj |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 has | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 saw | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | obj |
| 25 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 saw | xcomp |
| 26 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 carrying | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 feed | mark |
| 28 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 something | acl |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 young | nmod:poss |
| 30 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 feed | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | opportunity | a nest | here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | past | the man = man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | past | the man = man | opportunity | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry in a quote | gerund | opportunity not said here | something | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 6 | feed in a quote | to-infinitive | opportunity not said here | opportunity's young | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Recipient |
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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