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Opening of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell: the whole text, 9 sentences and 229 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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THE PUNISHMENT OF THE STINGY AND OTHER INDIAN STORIES[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics")

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by GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics")

Illustrated[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics")

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New York and London Harper & Brothers Publishers 1901[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics")

CONTENTS[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics")

PAGE[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics")

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The Stories and the Story-Tellers vii The Bluejay Stories ix The Punishment of the Stingy 3 Bluejay, the Imitator 19 Bluejay Visits the Ghosts 35 The Girl Who Was the Ring 49 The First Corn 65 The Star Boy 75 The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine 87 The First Medicine Lodge 117 Thunder Maker and Cold Maker 127 The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk 143 Ragged Head 159 Nothing Child 167 Shield Quiver’s Wife 189 The Beaver Stick 201 Little Friend Coyote 219[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics")

ILLUSTRATIONS[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics")

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“THEN THEY WENT SEAWARD” Frontispiece “HE SAW A BALD-HEADED EAGLE” Facing p. 8 “THE BIRD CAME DOWN” 10 “FIVE TIMES HE CIRCLED AROUND THEM” 12 “THERE WAS NO BOY THERE, ONLY A PILE OF BONES” 38 “ONLY BONES LAY THERE” 40 “ITS HEAD WAS SO HEAVY THAT IT THREW IT DOWN” 42 THE STICK GAME 50 SWINGING THE GIRL TO CALL THE BUFFALO 52 COYOTE HOLDS A COUNCIL OF WAR 54 “‘I CAN TELL WHICH STICK IS THE NEARER’” 58 “SNORTED ‘WHOOF,’ AND BLEW RED DUST FROM HIS NOSTRILS” 92 “THEY COULD NOT HURT HIM” 100 THE CONFERENCE IN THE LODGE 106 “SU-YE-SAI-PI CLUNG TO HIM” 226 “‘OH, LITTLE WOLF,’ SHE CRIED” 230[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics")

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