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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 65

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Pi-waṕ-ōk scarcely heard him, for he was still thinking of the great bird swinging so strong and free in the blue sky above.

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**Who acts:** waṕ ōk, Í, great bird · **What happens:** hear, think, swing · **To what, where:** Í, strong

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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 (waṕ ōk, Í, great bird), 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:pg66596:13:65
# text = Pi-waṕ-ōk scarcely heard him, for he was still thinking of the great bird swinging so strong and free in the blue sky above.
1	Pi	pi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ōk	ōk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	swinging	swing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	above	above	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | waṕ ōk | Í *= í* |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | Í *= í* |  |  |  | still | of the great bird | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swing** | gerund | the great bird *not said here* | strong in the blue sky |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent strong=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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