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description: At times he picked up the long stem and blew through it on the inflamed eyes, calling out at the end of every breath: “Whooh! Who acts: Such. 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 p
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 35

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At times he picked up the long stem and blew through it on the inflamed eyes, calling out at the end of every breath: “Whooh!

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**Who acts:** Such · **What happens:** pick up, blow, inflame, call out · **To what, where:** long stem, 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:pg66596:13:35
# text = At times he picked up the long stem and blew through it on the inflamed eyes, calling out at the end of every breath: “Whooh!
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	inflamed	inflame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Whooh	whooh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | Such | the long stem |  |  | time |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Topic |
| 2 | **blow** | past | Such *not said here* |  |  | spirit |  | on the inflamed eyes | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **inflame** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | gerund | Such *not said here* |  |  |  | at the end of every breath |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at end=Stimulus |

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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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