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title: Far up in the air, it looks down upon the world, and nothing escapes… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Far up in the air, it looks down upon the world, and nothing escapes its eye, from the great brown buffalo quietly grazing to the little ground squirrel hunting about its hole for a root of grass.” Who acts: sight, nothing, great brown buffalo. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 61

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Far up in the air, it looks down upon the world, and nothing escapes its eye, from the great brown buffalo quietly grazing to the little ground squirrel hunting about its hole for a root of grass.”

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**Who acts:** sight, nothing, great brown buffalo · **What happens:** look down, escape, graze, hunt · **To what, where:** eye, great brown buffalo

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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 (sight, nothing, great brown buffalo), 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:pg66596:13:61
# text = Far up in the air, it looks down upon the world, and nothing escapes its eye, from the great brown buffalo quietly grazing to the little ground squirrel hunting about its hole for a root of grass.”
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
16	escapes	escape	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	conj	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | present | sight |  |  |  |  | upon the world; down, far *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon world=Theme |
| 2 | **escape** | present | nothing | sight's eye |  | the great brown buffalo |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **graze** | gerund | the great brown buffalo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the little ground squirrel; quietly *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | the great brown buffalo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about sight's hole; for a root of grass | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about hole=Location for root=Theme |

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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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