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title: I am at the head; there is no animal living that is stronger than I;… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: I am at the head; there is no animal living that is stronger than I; none that I cannot kill. Who acts: I. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine, sentence 62

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I am at the head; there is no animal living that is stronger than I; none that I cannot kill.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, not kill · **To what, where:** I

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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 (I), 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:pg66596:10:62
# text = I am at the head; there is no animal living that is stronger than I; none that I cannot kill.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | than I; no animal living *nsubj*; that *nsubj*; none *nsubj*; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **kill** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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