The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 83
At length, seeing that he was not to be turned from this which he had set his mind upon, the friend consented to be his guide, and they started.
Who acts: length, friend, chance, Í · What happens: see, not turn, set, consent, be, start · To what, where: Í, this, length, guide
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 (length, friend, chance, Í), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consented | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 length | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 turned | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 turned | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 turned | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 turned | aux:pass |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seeing | advcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 this | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 turned | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 set | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 set | aux |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 length | acl:relcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 set | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 friend | det |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consented | nsubj |
| 24 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 guide | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 guide | cop |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 guide | nmod:poss |
| 28 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consented | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 started | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 started | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 started | nsubj |
| 32 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 consented | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | length not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not turn | past · passive | Í = í | this | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from this=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | set | past · perfect · passive | length | Í = í nsubj:pass; Í's mind obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme mind=Destination | ||||
| 4 | consent | past | the friend | length | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | the friend not said here | Í's guide | Í = í nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | start | past | chance | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | mind | Í = í | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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