The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 98
The young man climbed on up to the summit of the cliff, and walked away to a distant point, where he waited until he should be called.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: climb, walk away, wait, call · To what, where: summit, man · 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 (young man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | nsubj |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 summit | case |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 summit | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 summit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 summit | det |
| 9 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cliff | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cliff | det |
| 12 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summit | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 walked | cc |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | parataxis |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 point | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 point | det |
| 19 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 point | amod |
| 20 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 waited | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 waited | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 waited | nsubj |
| 24 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 walked | conj |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 called | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 called | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 called | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 called | aux:pass |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 waited | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | the young man | the summit of the cliff | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on summit=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | walk away | past | to a distant point; away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wait | past | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | should · passive | man | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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