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title: None knew better than the poor, the blind, and the crippled, that th… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: None knew better than the poor, the blind, and the crippled, that the parfleches piled up behind the beds, and filling the space near the doorway, contained stores of fat dried meat, rich pemmican, marrow fat, dried berries and roots, to a share of which they were always welcome. Who acts: None, par
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 5

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None knew better than the poor, the blind, and the crippled, that the parfleches piled up behind the beds, and filling the space near the doorway, contained stores of fat dried meat, rich pemmican, marrow fat, dried berries and roots, to a share of which they were always welcome.

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**Who acts:** None, parfleches · **What happens:** know, pile up, fill, contain, dry, be · **To what, where:** parfleches, beds, space, doorway, stores

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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 (None, parfleches), 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:pg66596:13:5
# text = None knew better than the poor, the blind, and the crippled, that the parfleches piled up behind the beds, and filling the space near the doorway, contained stores of fat dried meat, rich pemmican, marrow fat, dried berries and roots, to a share of which they were always welcome.
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crippled	crippled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	parfleches	parflech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	near	near	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	stores	store	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	pemmican	pemmican	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	marrow	marrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	obl	_	_
55	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
57	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	58	advmod	_	_
58	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | None |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pile up** | participle · passive |  | the parfleches |  | the beds |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme behind bed=Destination |
| 3 | **fill** | gerund | None *not said here* | the space |  | the doorway |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent space=Patient |
| 4 | **contain** | past |  | stores of fat and dried meat and rich pemmican and marrow fat and dried berries and roots |  |  |  | to a share | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot store=Theme |
| 5 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | parfleches *= parflech* |  |  |  |  | of a share; always, welcome *property* | tree rules |

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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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