--- title: Help me now; help me to drive away the ghosts from this sufferer’s e… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: Help me now; help me to drive away the ghosts from this sufferer’s eyes. Who acts: you, me. 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 every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/) / [The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/) / 30 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 30 Help me now; help me to drive away the ghosts from this sufferer’s eyes. **Who acts:** you, me · **What happens:** help, drive away · **To what, where:** me, ghosts, eyes 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 (you, me), 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:pg66596:13:30 # text = Help me now; help me to drive away the ghosts from this sufferer’s eyes. 1 Help help VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 1 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 5 help help VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ghosts ghost NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 sufferer sufferer NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | imperative | you *not said here* | | me | | now | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | | 2 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **drive away** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | the ghosts | | this sufferer's eyes | | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ghost=Theme from eye=Trajectory | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/31/) - ↑ back to [The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/)