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description: If the women you select to make the medicine and to cut and boil the tongue are pure women, the sick and the dying among your people will recover; if not, they will die. Who acts: you, women, people. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 100

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If the women you select to make the medicine and to cut and boil the tongue are pure women, the sick and the dying among your people will recover; if not, they will die.

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**Who acts:** you, women, people · **What happens:** select, make, cut, boil, be, die · **To what, where:** women, medicine, tongue, pure women

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Medicine Lodge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, women, people), 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:pg66596:11:100
# text = If the women you select to make the medicine and to cut and boil the tongue are pure women, the sick and the dying among your people will recover; if not, they will die.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	select	select	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
26	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | present | you | the women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent woman=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the medicine |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset medicine=Product |
| 3 | **cut** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **boil** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the tongue |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the women | pure women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **die** | gerund | the women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **recover** | future | your people |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **die** | future | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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