The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 99

Pi-waṕ-ōk lay motionless; the young birds ceased their frightened cries, and all was still save for the breeze, which sung through the tree-top with a mournful sound.

Who acts: waṕ ōk, young birds, all, birds · What happens: lay, cease, be, sing, cry · To what, where: frightened cries, breeze, tree top

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 (waṕ ōk, young birds, all, birds), 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	Pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waṕ	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Pi	punct
3	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ōk	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 ōk	punct
5	ōk	ōk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	motionless	motionless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lay	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ceased	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 birds	amod
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ceased	nsubj
12	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lay	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cries	nmod:poss
14	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cries	amod
15	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ceased	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 save	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 save	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 save	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 save	cop
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 save	advmod
21	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ceased	advcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 breeze	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 breeze	det
24	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 save	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sung	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 sung	nsubj:pass
27	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 breeze	acl
28	through	through	ADP	_	32 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 top	det
30	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 top	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 tree	punct
32	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sung	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 sound	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 sound	det
35	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 sound	amod
36	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 top	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	waṕ ōk				motionless property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cease	past	the young birds	birds's frightened cries				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cry=Eventuality
3	is	past	all			still	for the breeze; save property	tree rules
4	sing speech: express	participle · passive		the breeze	the tree top with a mournful sound			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	cry		birds = bird					nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 99

The tree

Pragmatics

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 99