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title: Look about you; open your eyes and choose one of these beautiful med… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Look about you; open your eyes and choose one of these beautiful medicines.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 113

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Look about you; open your eyes and choose one of these beautiful medicines.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look, open, choose · **To what, where:** eyes, one

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg66596:17:113
# text = Look about you; open your eyes and choose one of these beautiful medicines.”
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	open	open	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	choose	choose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about you=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | infinitive |  | your eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | infinitive |  | one of this beautiful medicines |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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