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title: by GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: by GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Opening, sentence 2

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by GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66596:1:2
# text = by GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
1	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	GEORGE	GEORGE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	BIRD	BIRD	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	GRINNELL	GRINNELL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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