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title: And now from afar the parent bird espied him in the nest, and swoope… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: And now from afar the parent bird espied him in the nest, and swooped down with a terrible rushing roar, like far-off thunder. Who acts: parent bird. 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 a
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 102

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And now from afar the parent bird espied him in the nest, and swooped down with a terrible rushing roar, like far-off thunder.

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**Who acts:** parent bird · **What happens:** espy, swoop down, rush · **To what, where:** limb, nest

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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 (parent bird), 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:pg66596:13:102
# text = And now from afar the parent bird espied him in the nest, and swooped down with a terrible rushing roar, like far-off thunder.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	espied	espy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **espy** | past | the parent bird | limb |  | the nest |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **swoop down** | past | the parent bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a terrible rushing roar; like off thunder | tree rules |
| 3 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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