--- title: For a long time he sat there thinking about all these things, and th… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: For a long time he sat there thinking about all these things, and the more he thought of them the worse they seemed, and at last he felt that he was no longer glad to live, and he made up his mind to go up into those cedars. Who acts: boy, things. 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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 (boy, things), 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:pg66596:10:13 # text = For a long time he sat there thinking about all these things, and the more he thought of them the worse they seemed, and at last he felt that he was no longer glad to live, and he made up his mind to go up into those cedars. 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 8 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 12 det:predet _ _ 11 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 12 det _ _ 12 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 ccomp _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 no no ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 43 up up ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 advcl _ _ 48 up up ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 49 into into ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 51 det _ _ 51 cedars cedar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | boy | | | there | time | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | boy *not said here* | | | | | about all things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | boy | | | | | of things *= thing* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **seem** | past | things *= thing* | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | past | boy | | | last | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location | | 6 | **is** | past | boy | | | | | glad, long *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **live** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **make up** | past | boy | boy's mind | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | | 9 | **go up** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | | that cedars | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 10 | **mind** | | boy | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/14/) - ↑ back to [The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/)