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title: One day Pi-waṕ-ōk returned from a hunt and complained that his eyes… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day Pi-waṕ-ōk returned from a hunt and complained that his eyes hurt him. Who acts: Pi, waṕ ōk, eyes. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 8

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One day Pi-waṕ-ōk returned from a hunt and complained that his eyes hurt him.

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**Who acts:** Pi, waṕ ōk, eyes · **What happens:** ōk, return, complain, hurt · **To what, where:** waṕ ōk, hunt, Pi · **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 (Pi, waṕ ōk, eyes), 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:pg66596:13:8
# text = One day Pi-waṕ-ōk returned from a hunt and complained that his eyes hurt him.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Pi	pi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ōk	ōk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
13	complained	complain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ōk** |  | Pi |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | participle |  | waṕ ōk *not said here* |  | a hunt |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hunt=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | past | waṕ ōk |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hurt** | past | Pi's eyes | Pi |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |

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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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