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title: Sometimes they were side by side, the leader guiding the blind one’s… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes they were side by side, the leader guiding the blind one’s hands and feet, and again he was ahead, and reaching down would pull Pi-waṕ-ōk up on a narrow shelf. Who acts: steps, leader, climb, reaching. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Gr
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 85

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Sometimes they were side by side, the leader guiding the blind one’s hands and feet, and again he was ahead, and reaching down would pull Pi-waṕ-ōk up on a narrow shelf.

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**Who acts:** steps, leader, climb, reaching · **What happens:** be, guide, reach down, pull, ōk up · **To what, where:** side, hands, Pi, narrow shelf

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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 (steps, leader, climb, reaching), 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:pg66596:13:85
# text = Sometimes they were side by side, the leader guiding the blind one’s hands and feet, and again he was ahead, and reaching down would pull Pi-waṕ-ōk up on a narrow shelf.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
10	guiding	guide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	csubj	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
30	Pi	Pi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	ōk	ōk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	ccomp	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | steps *= step* | side |  |  |  | by side; the leader *appos*; sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **guide** | gerund | the leader *not said here* | the blind one's hands and feet |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | climb |  |  |  | again | ahead *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **reach down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pull** | would | reaching |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **ōk up** | participle · passive |  | Pi |  | a narrow shelf |  | waṕ *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |

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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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