The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 8
One day Pi-waṕ-ōk returned from a hunt and complained that his eyes hurt him.
Who acts: Pi, waṕ ōk, eyes · What happens: ōk, return, complain, hurt · To what, where: waṕ ōk, hunt, Pi · 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 (Pi, waṕ ōk, eyes), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ōk | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ōk | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Pi | punct |
| 5 | waṕ | waṕ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ōk | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ōk | punct |
| 7 | ōk | ōk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 complained | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ōk | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 hunt | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hunt | det |
| 11 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 returned | cc |
| 13 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 hurt | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hurt | nsubj |
| 17 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 complained | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hurt | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 complained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ōk | Pi | day | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | return | participle | waṕ ōk not said here | a hunt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hunt=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | complain speech: other | past | waṕ ōk | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hurt | past | Pi's eyes | Pi | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
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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