--- title: Pi-waṕ-ōk lay motionless; the young birds ceased their frightened cr… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: Pi-waṕ-ōk lay motionless; the young birds ceased their frightened cries, and all was still save for the breeze, which sung through the tree-top with a mournful sound. Who acts: waṕ ōk, young birds, all, birds. 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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, young birds, all, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:13:99 # text = Pi-waṕ-ōk lay motionless; the young birds ceased their frightened cries, and all was still save for the breeze, which sung through the tree-top with a mournful sound. 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 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 motionless motionless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 ceased cease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cries cry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 21 nsubj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 breeze breeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 28 through through ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 mournful mournful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | present | waṕ ōk | | | | | motionless *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cease** | past | the young birds | birds's frightened cries | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector cry=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | past | all | | | | still | for the breeze; save *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle · passive | | the breeze | | the tree top with a mournful sound | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **cry** | | birds *= bird* | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/100/) - ↑ back to [The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/)