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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 135

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After lighting your pipe, point it first to Atíus Tiráwat, and then blow a few whiffs to me.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** light, point, blow · **To what, where:** pipe, den, Atíus, few whiffs, me

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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 (you), 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:pg66596:10:135
# text = After lighting your pipe, point it first to Atíus Tiráwat, and then blow a few whiffs to me.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lighting	light	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	point	point	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Atíus	Atíus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	Tiráwat	Tiráwat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	blow	blow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	whiffs	whiff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | gerund | you *not said here* | your pipe |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Product |
| 2 | **point** | imperative | you *not said here* | den | Atíus |  |  | first *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to atíus=Recipient |
| 3 | **blow** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a few whiffs | me |  | then |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whiff=Patient to i=Recipient |

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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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