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title: How he should take the branch of a tree and strike a man with its po… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: How he should take the branch of a tree and strike a man with its point and it would go through him, and then how to draw it out and to make the man well again. Who acts: power, branch. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Grizzly Bear’s
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 250

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How he should take the branch of a tree and strike a man with its point and it would go through him, and then how to draw it out and to make the man well again.

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**Who acts:** power, branch · **What happens:** take, strike, go, draw out, make, point · **To what, where:** branch, man

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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 (power, branch), 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:pg66596:10:250
# text = How he should take the branch of a tree and strike a man with its point and it would go through him, and then how to draw it out and to make the man well again.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	strike	strike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | should | power | the branch of a tree |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | present | power *not said here* | a man |  |  |  | with branch's point | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent man=Patient with point=Instrument |
| 3 | **go** | would | branch |  |  |  |  | through power | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through he=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **draw out** | to-infinitive | power *not said here* | branch |  |  | then |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | power *not said here* | the man |  |  | again | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |
| 6 | **point** |  | branch |  |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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