--- title: Then he took the boy in his arms, and hugged him and kissed him and… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: Then he took the boy in his arms, and hugged him and kissed him and breathed on him, and said: “Now I give you my power. Who acts: boy. 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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 (boy), 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:pg66596:10:92 # text = Then he took the boy in his arms, and hugged him and kissed him and breathed on him, and said: “Now I give you my power. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 hugged hug VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 breathed breathe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 24 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 iobj _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | boy | the boy | | boy's arms | then | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Value in arm=Location | | 2 | **hug** | past | boy *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **kiss** | past | boy *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 4 | **breathe** | past | boy *not said here* | | | | | on boy | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on he=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | present | boy | my power | you | | now | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient power=Theme | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/93/) - ↑ back to [The Grizzly Bear’s Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/10/)