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title: He said, “Take this claw and this bundle of medicine and put them on… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: He said, “Take this claw and this bundle of medicine and put them on a string and wear them on your neck always, the claw hanging in front.” Who acts: chief, claw. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, with its de
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 113

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He said, “Take this claw and this bundle of medicine and put them on a string and wear them on your neck always, the claw hanging in front.”

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**Who acts:** chief, claw · **What happens:** say, take, put, wear, hang · **To what, where:** claw, bear, string, neck, front · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, claw), 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:pg66596:10:113
# text = He said, “Take this claw and this bundle of medicine and put them on a string and wear them on your neck always, the claw hanging in front.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
29	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | chief |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this claw and this bundle of medicine |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme |
| 3 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | bear |  | a string |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on string=Destination |
| 4 | **wear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | bear |  | your neck |  | the claw *obl*; always *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source |
| 5 | **hang** *in a quote* | gerund | the claw *not said here* |  |  | front |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in front=Location |

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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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