The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 76
“Even so,” the blind one replied, “yet must I try to do it.
Who acts: I · What happens: reply, try, do · To what, where: blind one, friend · 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), 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 | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 2 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 one | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 try | advmod |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 try | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 try | nsubj |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 one | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 try | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the blind one not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try in a quote | must | I | yet | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | friend | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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