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title: With my good eyes, and seeing plainly where to cling and step, it wo… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: With my good eyes, and seeing plainly where to cling and step, it would be a hard task to reach that height; for you it would be sure death to attempt the climb.” Who acts: it, you. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness of Pi-wa
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 75

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With my good eyes, and seeing plainly where to cling and step, it would be a hard task to reach that height; for you it would be sure death to attempt the climb.”

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**Who acts:** it, you · **What happens:** see, cling, step, be, reach, attempt · **To what, where:** hard task, height, sure death, climb · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (it, you), 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:pg66596:13:75
# text = With my good eyes, and seeing plainly where to cling and step, it would be a hard task to reach that height; for you it would be sure death to attempt the climb.”
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
7	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
8	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	cling	cling	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
31	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	climb	climb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cling** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **step** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | would | it | a hard task |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | that height |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent height=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | would | you | sure death |  |  |  | friend *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **attempt** | to-infinitive |  | the climb |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climb=Eventuality |

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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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