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title: As the boy stood there looking at her, the she-bear said to him: “I… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the boy stood there looking at her, the she-bear said to him: “I am sorry that you have come here. Who acts: boy, she bear. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 21

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As the boy stood there looking at her, the she-bear said to him: “I am sorry that you have come here.

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**Who acts:** boy, she bear · **What happens:** stand, look, say, be, come · **To what, where:** boy · **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 (boy, she bear), 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:pg66596:10:21
# text = As the boy stood there looking at her, the she-bear said to him: “I am sorry that you have come here.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	ccomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	ccomp	_	_
26	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the boy |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the she bear |  | boy |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the she bear *= bear* |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | boy |  |  | here |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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