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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 34

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He knelt beside Pi-waṕ-ōk, and began an ancient medicine song, shaking his rattles and motioning the unseen spirit to depart.

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**Who acts:** Such · **What happens:** kneel, begin, shake, motion, depart, rattle · **To what, where:** Pi waṕ ōk, ancient medicine song, rattles, unseen spirit

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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 (Such), 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:pg66596:13:34
# text = He knelt beside Pi-waṕ-ōk, and began an ancient medicine song, shaking his rattles and motioning the unseen spirit to depart.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	Pi	Pi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ōk	ōk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	rattles	rattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	motioning	motion	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel** | past | Such |  |  | Pi waṕ ōk |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside ōk=Location |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Such *not said here* | a ancient medicine song |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality |
| 3 | **shake** | gerund |  | Such's rattles |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rattle=Patient |
| 4 | **motion** | gerund |  | the unseen spirit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **depart** | to-infinitive |  | the unseen spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **rattle** |  | Such |  |  |  |  |  | nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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