The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 97
“Go,” he called out to his friend, “go and leave me for a time here alone.”
Who acts: friend, man, you · What happens: go, call out, leave · To what, where: friend · 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 (friend, man, you), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 called | nsubj |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 called | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 friend | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 leave | cc |
| 15 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 leave | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leave | obl |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 leave | advmod |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 15 leave | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | man's friend = friend not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | past | man | man's friend | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Pi's friend = friend | here | time | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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