--- title: Take him, and if you have an enemy among the doctors in your tribe,… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: Take him, and if you have an enemy among the doctors in your tribe, take this little one down to the water early in the morning and dip his nose in the water, and when you take it out it will have a piece of liver in its mouth. Who acts: you, nose. 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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 (you, nose), 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:pg66596:10:257 # text = Take him, and if you have an enemy among the doctors in your tribe, take this little one down to the water early in the morning and dip his nose in the water, and when you take it out it will have a piece of liver in its mouth. 1 Take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 among among ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 tribe tribe NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 17 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 down down ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 dip dip VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 advcl _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 out out ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | | son | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a enemy | | | | among the doctors in your tribe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this little one | | the water | morning | down, early *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to water=Destination | | 4 | **dip** | infinitive | you *not said here* | son's nose | | the water | | | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent nose=Theme in water=Trajectory | | 5 | **take out** | present | you | nose | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **have** | future | nose | a piece of liver | | nose's mouth | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | 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 256](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/256/) - next →: [sentence 258](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/258/) - ↑ back to [The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/)