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title: The Stories and the Story-Tellers vii The Bluejay Stories ix The Pun… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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 12
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Opening, sentence 7

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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

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**Who acts:** Stories, Stories ix, Girl · **What happens:** ix, visit, be · **To what, where:** Ghosts, 49

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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: who acts (Stories, Stories ix, Girl), 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:pg66596:1:7
# text = 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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tellers	teller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Stories	Story	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	compound	_	_
12	ix	ix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Punishment	Punishment	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Stingy	stingy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Imitator	imitator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
23	19	19	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
24	Bluejay	Bluejay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	Visits	visit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Ghosts	Ghost	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	35	35	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Girl	Girl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
31	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
32	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Ring	Ring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:unmarked	_	_
35	49	49	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	parataxis	_	_
36	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	38	amod	_	_
38	Corn	Corn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:unmarked	_	_
39	65	65	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	flat	_	_
40	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	79	nmod:poss	_	_
43	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	_
44	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Grizzly	Grizzly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’s	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
49	87	87	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	48	flat	_	_
50	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	52	amod	_	_
52	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Lodge	Lodge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
54	117	117	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	list	_	_
55	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	_
56	Maker	Maker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod:unmarked	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	Cold	Cold	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	Maker	Maker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
60	127	127	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	59	flat	_	_
61	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	Blindness	Blindness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
64	Pi	Pi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	64	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	waṕ	waṕ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	ōk	ōk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	_
69	143	143	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	71	nummod	_	_
70	Ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	appos	_	_
72	159	159	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	71	flat	_	_
73	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	_
74	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	73	flat	_	_
75	167	167	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	54	list	_	_
76	Shield	Shield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	_
77	Quiver	Quiver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	76	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
78	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
79	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
80	189	189	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	79	flat	_	_
81	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	83	det	_	_
82	Beaver	Beaver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	83	compound	_	_
83	Stick	Stick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
84	201	201	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	83	list	_	_
85	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	86	amod	_	_
86	Friend	Friend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	84	nmod:unmarked	_	_
87	Coyote	Coyote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	86	flat	_	_
88	219	219	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	83	list	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ix** |  | the Stories and the Story Tellers vii |  |  |  |  | the Punishment of the Stingy 3 Bluejay *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **visit** | present | Stories ix | the Ghosts |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ghost=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the Girl | 49 |  |  |  | the Ring *nmod:unmarked*; the First Corn and the Beaver Stick *nmod:unmarked*; Who *nsubj* | 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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