The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 9
“They feel as if some one had thrown sand in them,” he said.
Who acts: ōk, Pi · What happens: feel, throw, say · To what, where: one · 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 (ōk, Pi), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 thrown | mark |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 thrown | mark |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrown | aux |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feel | ccomp |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thrown | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present | ōk | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | throw a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect · passive | some one | in ōk; sand obj | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination sand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Pi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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