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title: One thing that kept him up was the thought that by some good chance… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: One thing that kept him up was the thought that by some good chance he might, some day, be cured. Who acts: One thing, good chance. 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 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 56

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One thing that kept him up was the thought that by some good chance he might, some day, be cured.

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**Who acts:** One thing, good chance · **What happens:** keep up, be, cure · **To what, where:** Pi, thought

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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 (One thing, good chance), 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:pg66596:13:56
# text = One thing that kept him up was the thought that by some good chance he might, some day, be cured.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep up** | past | One thing | Pi |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | One thing | the thought |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cure** | infinitive · passive | some good chance and some day | the thought |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer that=Source |

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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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