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title: When the enemy came and attacked the people and wounded any, the chi… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the enemy came and attacked the people and wounded any, the chief’s son was always there and always cured them. Who acts: enemy, son. 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 pra
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 336

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When the enemy came and attacked the people and wounded any, the chief’s son was always there and always cured them.

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**Who acts:** enemy, son · **What happens:** come, attack, wound, be, cure · **To what, where:** people, any

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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 (enemy, son), 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:pg66596:10:336
# text = When the enemy came and attacked the people and wounded any, the chief’s son was always there and always cured them.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	cured	cure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the enemy |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attack** | past |  | the people |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 3 | **wound** | past |  | any |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus any=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past | the chief's son |  |  |  |  | always, there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cure** | past | the chief's son *not said here* | people |  |  |  | always *property* | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer they=Source |

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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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