The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 85
Sometimes they were side by side, the leader guiding the blind one’s hands and feet, and again he was ahead, and reaching down would pull Pi-waṕ-ōk up on a narrow shelf.
Who acts: steps, leader, climb, reaching · What happens: be, guide, reach down, pull, ōk up · To what, where: side, hands, Pi, narrow shelf
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 (steps, leader, climb, reaching), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 side | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 side | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 side | cop |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leader | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leader | det |
| 9 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | appos |
| 10 | guiding | guide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 leader | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 one | case |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 guiding | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 feet | cc |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hands | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ahead | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ahead | cc |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 ahead | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ahead | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ahead | cop |
| 23 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 9 leader | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pull | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pull | cc |
| 26 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 pull | csubj |
| 27 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 reaching | advmod |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 pull | aux |
| 29 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 ahead | conj |
| 30 | Pi | Pi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 ōk | nsubj |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Pi | punct |
| 32 | waṕ | waṕ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ōk | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 ōk | punct |
| 34 | ōk | ōk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 pull | ccomp |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 ōk | compound:prt |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 shelf | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 shelf | det |
| 38 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 shelf | amod |
| 39 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ōk | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 side | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | steps = step | side | by side; the leader appos; sometimes property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | guide | gerund | the leader not said here | the blind one's hands and feet | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | climb | again | ahead property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | reach down | gerund | down property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | pull | would | reaching | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | ōk up | participle · passive | Pi | a narrow shelf | waṕ nsubj:pass | tree rules |
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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