The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 74
“Hai-yu,” the friend exclaimed, “you know not what you ask.
Who acts: Hai, you · What happens: exclaim, not know, ask · 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 (Hai, you), 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 | _ | 2 Hai | punct |
| 2 | Hai | Hai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 yu | punct |
| 4 | yu | yu | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Hai | dep |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yu | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hai | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 ask | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | nsubj |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Hai | the friend nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | what obj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=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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