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title: Intercede for us all here to-day; ask the Sun to have pity on us all… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Intercede for us all here to-day; ask the Sun to have pity on us all; to grant us long life, good health, and sufficient food.” Who acts: you. 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 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 32

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Intercede for us all here to-day; ask the Sun to have pity on us all; to grant us long life, good health, and sufficient food.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** intercede, ask, have, grant · **To what, where:** sufficient food, Sun, pity, long life, us

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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 (you), 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:pg66596:13:32
# text = Intercede for us all here to-day; ask the Sun to have pity on us all; to grant us long life, good health, and sufficient food.”
1	Intercede	intercede	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ask	ask	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
15	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	grant	grant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intercede** | imperative | you *not said here* | sufficient food |  | here |  | for us | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | the Sun |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent sun=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | pity |  |  |  | on us | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 4 | **grant** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | long life and good health | us |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal life=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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