The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 73
I beg you to guide me to that place, for I believe the traveller of the sky can cure me.”
Who acts: I, traveller · What happens: beg, guide, believe, cure · To what, where: you, me, place · 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 (I, traveller), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 beg | nsubj |
| 2 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 beg | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 guide | mark |
| 5 | guide | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beg | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 guide | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guide | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believe | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 believe | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 believe | nsubj |
| 13 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 beg | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 traveller | det |
| 15 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cure | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sky | det |
| 18 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 traveller | nmod |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cure | aux |
| 20 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 believe | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 cure | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | I | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | guide | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | that place | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | cure | can | the traveller of the sky | me | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer i=Source |
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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