--- title: As the whitehead had said, Pi-waṕ-ōk became a great medicine man and… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: As the whitehead had said, Pi-waṕ-ōk became a great medicine man and healer of the sick, and, through the secret power that the bird gave him, he was able to do many strange things. Who acts: Pi waṕ ōk, bird, man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pi waṕ ōk, bird, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:13:139 # text = As the whitehead had said, Pi-waṕ-ōk became a great medicine man and healer of the sick, and, through the secret power that the bird gave him, he was able to do many strange things. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 whitehead whitehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 Pi Pi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 waṕ waṕ NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ōk ōk NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 healer healer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 secret secret ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 41 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | the whitehead | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | | 2 | **become** | past | Pi waṕ ōk | a great medicine man and healer of the sick and the secret power | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **give** | past | the bird | the secret power *not said here* | man | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | man | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | many strange things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/138/) - next →: [sentence 140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/140/) - ↑ back to [The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/)