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description: Give a piece to the first one that comes, and then take your sharp stick and get another piece, and so feed all the birds. Who acts: you, first one. 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 a
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 228

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Give a piece to the first one that comes, and then take your sharp stick and get another piece, and so feed all the birds.

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**Who acts:** you, first one · **What happens:** give, come, take, get, feed · **To what, where:** piece, first one, sharp stick, birds

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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, first one), 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:pg66596:10:228
# text = Give a piece to the first one that comes, and then take your sharp stick and get another piece, and so feed all the birds.
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	feed	feed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | a piece | the first one |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to one=Recipient |
| 2 | **come** | present | the first one |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive |  | your sharp stick |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive |  | another piece |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus |
| 5 | **feed** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | all birds |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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