The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 79
Wherever we go, whatever we do, it lies in wait for us, like a panther for the deer by a forest trail.
Who acts: we, death · What happens: go, do, lie · To what, where: whatever, wait
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 (we, death), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lies | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 do | obj |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lies | nsubj |
| 10 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wait | case |
| 12 | wait | wait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wait | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 panther | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 panther | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 panther | det |
| 18 | panther | panther | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 deer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 deer | det |
| 21 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 panther | nmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 trail | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 trail | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 trail | compound |
| 25 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lies | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | we | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | we | whatever | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | death | wait for us | like a panther for the deer; by a forest trail | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wait=Location |
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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