--- title: The next morning, while yet the people slept and even the dogs were… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: The next morning, while yet the people slept and even the dogs were quiet, while not a stir of any kind broke the stillness of the camp, Pi-waṕ-ōk, restlessly turning on his bed, heard the shrill cry of a bald eagle (Ksiḱ-i-kinni, whitehead), now near, now far, as it circled around and around above --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/59/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/) / [The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/) / 59 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 59 The next morning, while yet the people slept and even the dogs were quiet, while not a stir of any kind broke the stillness of the camp, Pi-waṕ-ōk, restlessly turning on his bed, heard the shrill cry of a bald eagle (Ksiḱ-i-kinni, whitehead), now near, now far, as it circled around and around above the valley. **Who acts:** people, dogs, stir, waṕ ōk, i, cry · **What happens:** sleep, be, break, turn, hear, kinni · **To what, where:** stillness, bed, shrill cry, valley, kind 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 (people, dogs, stir, waṕ ōk), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:13:59 # text = The next morning, while yet the people slept and even the dogs were quiet, while not a stir of any kind broke the stillness of the camp, Pi-waṕ-ōk, restlessly turning on his bed, heard the shrill cry of a bald eagle (Ksiḱ-i-kinni, whitehead), now near, now far, as it circled around and around above the valley. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 even even ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stir stir NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 23 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 stillness stillness NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 Pi pi NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 waṕ waṕ NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ōk ōk NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 restlessly restlessly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 shrill shrill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 eagle eagle NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 51 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 Ksiḱ Ksiḱ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 53 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 kinni kinni NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 whitehead whitehead NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 62 advmod _ _ 62 near near ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 64 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 65 advmod _ _ 65 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 62 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 67 as as SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 68 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 nsubj _ _ 69 circled circle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 70 around around ADV RB _ 69 advmod _ _ 71 and and CCONJ CC _ 72 cc _ _ 72 around around ADV RB _ 70 conj _ _ 73 above above ADP IN _ 75 case _ _ 74 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 75 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 76 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | past | the people | | | | morning | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | the dogs | | | | | quiet *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **break** | past | a stir of any kind | the stillness of the camp and waṕ ōk | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stillness=Patient | | 4 | **turn** | gerund | waṕ ōk *not said here* | | | stir's bed | | restlessly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on bed=Trajectory | | 5 | **hear** | past | | the shrill cry of a bald eagle | | | now; now | near *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | | 6 | **kinni** | | i | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **circle** | past | cry | | | the valley | | around *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **stir** | | | any kind | | | | | nom stir «state transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **cry** | | a bald eagle | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/60/) - ↑ back to [The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/)