The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 80
I am not afraid; have pity and help me try to reach that nest.”
Who acts: I, me · What happens: not be, have, help, try, reach · To what, where: pity, me, nest
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, me), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 afraid | advmod |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | conj |
| 7 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 help | cc |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 help | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 reach | mark |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 try | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 nest | det |
| 15 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I not said here | pity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | ||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | infinitive | me not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | reach not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | that nest | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nest=Theme |
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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