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title: “When I try to see something far away, they fill with tears and ever… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: “When I try to see something far away, they fill with tears and everything becomes indistinct.” Who acts: Pi, ōk, everything. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 10

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“When I try to see something far away, they fill with tears and everything becomes indistinct.”

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**Who acts:** Pi, ōk, everything · **What happens:** try, see, fill, become · **To what, where:** something

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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 (Pi, ōk, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66596:13:10
# text = “When I try to see something far away, they fill with tears and everything becomes indistinct.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	fill	fill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	indistinct	indistinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** *in a quote* | present | Pi |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Pi *not said here* | something |  |  |  | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fill** *in a quote* | present | ōk |  |  |  |  | with tears | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tear=Instrument |
| 4 | **become** *in a quote* | present | everything |  |  |  |  | indistinct *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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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