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title: When he entered he said: “Grandmother, make me some moccasins and pu… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he entered he said: “Grandmother, make me some moccasins and put some dried buffalo meat in a sack for me. Who acts: person, Grandmother, some. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Medicine Lodge, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 22

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When he entered he said: “Grandmother, make me some moccasins and put some dried buffalo meat in a sack for me.

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**Who acts:** person, Grandmother, some · **What happens:** enter, say, make, put, dry, meat · **To what, where:** moccasins, person, sack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (person, Grandmother, some), 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:pg66596:11:22
# text = When he entered he said: “Grandmother, make me some moccasins and put some dried buffalo meat in a sack for me.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
17	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | person |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | person |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | Grandmother | some moccasins | person |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary moccasin=Product |
| 4 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | Grandmother *not said here* |  |  | a sack |  | for person | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sack=Destination |
| 5 | **dry** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **meat** *in a quote* |  | some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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