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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 110

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None of my kind could make you see again, for we have never had occasion to treat the eyes.

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**Who acts:** None, you, we · **What happens:** make, see, not have, treat · **To what, where:** you, occasion, eyes

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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 (None, you, we), 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:pg66596:13:110
# text = None of my kind could make you see again, for we have never had occasion to treat the eyes.
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
16	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | None of my kind | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **have** | present · perfect | we | occasion |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Patient |
| 4 | **treat** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the eyes |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent eye=Recipient |

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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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