The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 96
Then came the most dangerous feat of all, to climb over the rim of the wide and loose-sticked nest; but that too was accomplished, and the tired man lay down in its hollow beside the scared and hissing fledglings.
Who acts: tired man · What happens: come, climb, sticke, accomplish, lie down, hiss · To what, where: dangerous feat, rim, that, hollow, fledglings
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 (tired man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feat | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 dangerous | advmod |
| 5 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feat | amod |
| 6 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 feat | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 climb | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 climb | mark |
| 11 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | conj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 rim | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rim | det |
| 14 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 climb | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 nest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 nest | det |
| 17 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nest | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 nest | cc |
| 19 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nest | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 loose | punct |
| 21 | sticked | sticke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 nest | amod |
| 22 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rim | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 accomplished | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 accomplished | cc |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 accomplished | advmod |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 28 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 lay | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lay | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 man | det |
| 32 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 man | amod |
| 33 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | nsubj |
| 34 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 lay | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hollow | case |
| 37 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hollow | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lay | obl |
| 39 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 41 scared | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 scared | det |
| 41 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hollow | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 hissing | cc |
| 43 | hissing | hiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 hollow | conj |
| 44 | fledglings | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 hissing | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the dangerous feat of all | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location feat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | climb | to-infinitive | the rim of the wide loose sticked nest | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rim=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | sticke | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | accomplish | past · passive | that | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | lie down | past | the tired man | nest's hollow | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hollow=Location | |||
| 6 | hiss | gerund | the tired man not said here | fledglings | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fledgling=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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