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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 34

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As soon as you hear any noise outside—any one coming—pick up that cub, the littlest one, and hold it in your arms.

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**Who acts:** you, one · **What happens:** hear, come, pick up, hold · **To what, where:** noise, cub, arms

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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, 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:pg66596:10:34
# text = As soon as you hear any noise outside—any one coming—pick up that cub, the littlest one, and hold it in your arms.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	cub	cub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	littlest	little	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | you | any noise |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | any one |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pick up** | infinitive |  | that cub |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Topic |
| 4 | **hold** | infinitive |  | noise |  | your arms |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in arm=Location |

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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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