--- title: When you are carrying these things your enemy cannot hurt you, even… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: When you are carrying these things your enemy cannot hurt you, even if you run right on to him; but with one stroke of this club you shall kill your enemy.” Who acts: you, carrying. 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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 (you, carrying), 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:pg66596:10:106 # text = When you are carrying these things your enemy cannot hurt you, even if you run right on to him; but with one stroke of this club you shall kill your enemy.” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 5 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 18 right right ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 on on ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present · progressive | you | this things your enemy | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | | 2 | **not** **hurt** | can | carrying | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | | 3 | **run** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | medicine | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | | 4 | **kill** | shall | you | your enemy | | | | with one stroke of this club | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient with stroke=Instrument | | 5 | **stroke** | | | this club | | | | | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/107/) - ↑ back to [The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/)