The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 75
With my good eyes, and seeing plainly where to cling and step, it would be a hard task to reach that height; for you it would be sure death to attempt the climb.”
Who acts: it, you · What happens: see, cling, step, be, reach, attempt · To what, where: hard task, height, sure death, climb · 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 (it, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 task | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 task | cc |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 task | csubj |
| 8 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 11 cling | advmod |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 cling | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cling | mark |
| 11 | cling | cling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seeing | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 step | cc |
| 13 | step | step | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cling | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seeing | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 task | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 task | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 task | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 task | det |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 task | amod |
| 20 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 reach | mark |
| 22 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 task | acl |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 height | det |
| 24 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reach | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 death | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 death | nsubj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 death | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 death | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 death | cop |
| 31 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 death | amod |
| 32 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | appos |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 attempt | mark |
| 34 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 death | acl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 climb | det |
| 36 | climb | climb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 attempt | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 death | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 death | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | cling | to-infinitive | plainly property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | step | infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | would | it | a hard task | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reach | to-infinitive | that height | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent height=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a | would | you | sure death | friend nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | attempt | to-infinitive | the climb | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climb=Eventuality |
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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