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title: Far up on the cliff by which we are camped is a short pine-tree, gro… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Far up on the cliff by which we are camped is a short pine-tree, growing out from the climbing rock; there, in the branches, the bird has built its home.” Who acts: cliff, short pine tree. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness o
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 71

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Far up on the cliff by which we are camped is a short pine-tree, growing out from the climbing rock; there, in the branches, the bird has built its home.”

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**Who acts:** cliff, short pine tree · **What happens:** camp, be, grow out, build · **To what, where:** we, short pine tree, bird

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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 (cliff, short pine tree), 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:pg66596:13:71
# text = Far up on the cliff by which we are camped is a short pine-tree, growing out from the climbing rock; there, in the branches, the bird has built its home.”
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	camped	camp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **camp** | present · passive | the cliff | we |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme subject=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the cliff | a short pine tree and the branches |  |  |  | the branches *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow out** | gerund | a short pine tree and the branches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from the climbing rock | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from rock=Patient |
| 4 | **build** | present · perfect · passive |  | the bird |  |  |  | opportunity's home *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary home=Product |

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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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