--- title: That night the chief’s son went over to his friend’s lodge to sleep… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: That night the chief’s son went over to his friend’s lodge to sleep there, but before they went to bed he left the lodge for a time, and while he was gone the poor boy, as he sat there waiting, began to think about himself and how unhappy he was. Who acts: night, people, chief, boy. 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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 (night, people, chief, boy), 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:pg66596:10:11 # text = That night the chief’s son went over to his friend’s lodge to sleep there, but before they went to bed he left the lodge for a time, and while he was gone the poor boy, as he sat there waiting, began to think about himself and how unhappy he was. 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’s 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 over over ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 lodge lodge NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 16 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 lodge lodge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 33 while while SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 45 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 xcomp _ _ 50 about about ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 49 obl _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 54 advmod _ _ 54 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 conj _ _ 55 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 56 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go over** | past | that night the chief's son | | | | | to chief's friend's lodge; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | that night the chief's son *not said here* | | | there | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | past | people | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **leave** | past | chief | the lodge | | | time | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | chief | | | | | the poor boy *nsubj*; gone *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sit** | past | boy | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **wait** | gerund | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **begin** | past | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | about boy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about himself=Topic | | 10 | **is** | past | boy | | | | | unhappy *property* | tree rules | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/12/) - ↑ back to [The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/)