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title: He stood up on his hind feet and threw up his hands, and then came d… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood up on his hind feet and threw up his hands, and then came down again and struck his paws on the ground, and then rose up and snorted “whoof,” and blew out red dust from his nostrils, and then came down and jumped about, and sometimes sprang towards the boy, as though he were going to seize 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 49

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He stood up on his hind feet and threw up his hands, and then came down again and struck his paws on the ground, and then rose up and snorted “whoof,” and blew out red dust from his nostrils, and then came down and jumped about, and sometimes sprang towards the boy, as though he were going to seize him.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** stand up, throw up, come down, strike, rise up, snort · **To what, where:** hind feet, hands, paws, whoof, red dust, boy

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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 (boy), 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:pg66596:10:49
# text = He stood up on his hind feet and threw up his hands, and then came down again and struck his paws on the ground, and then rose up and snorted “whoof,” and blew out red dust from his nostrils, and then came down and jumped about, and sometimes sprang towards the boy, as though he were going to seize him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	snorted	snort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
33	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	whoof	whoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
48	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
49	down	down	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
52	about	about	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	56	advmod	_	_
56	sprang	spring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
57	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
61	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
62	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
63	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	conj	_	_
66	to	to	PART	TO	_	67	mark	_	_
67	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	65	xcomp	_	_
68	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | boy |  |  | boy's hind feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on foot=Location |
| 2 | **throw up** | past | boy *not said here* | boy's hands |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **come down** | past |  |  |  |  | then; again | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **strike** | past | boy *not said here* | boy's paws |  |  |  | on the ground | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent paw=Instrument on ground=Patient |
| 5 | **rise up** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **snort** | past |  | whoof |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whoof=Patient |
| 7 | **blow out** | past | boy *not said here* | red dust |  |  |  | from boy's nostrils | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent dust=Patient from nostril=Co-Patient |
| 8 | **come down** | past |  |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **jump about** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **spring** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the boy; sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards boy=Destination |
| 11 | **go** | past · progressive | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 12 | **seize** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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