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title: Many unknown animals were painted on it, and behind it, hanging from… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many unknown animals were painted on it, and behind it, hanging from a tripod, were the war clothes of the Sun, made of the skins of strange animals, and trimmed with fine feathers. Who acts: hanging. 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 56

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Many unknown animals were painted on it, and behind it, hanging from a tripod, were the war clothes of the Sun, made of the skins of strange animals, and trimmed with fine feathers.

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**Who acts:** hanging · **What happens:** paint, hang, be, make, trim · **To what, where:** Many unknown animals, name, tripod, war clothes

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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 (hanging), 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:pg66596:11:56
# text = Many unknown animals were painted on it, and behind it, hanging from a tripod, were the war clothes of the Sun, made of the skins of strange animals, and trimmed with fine feathers.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tripod	tripod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	trimmed	trim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past · passive |  | Many unknown animals |  | name |  | behind name | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on it=Destination |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund |  |  |  | a tripod |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | hanging | the war clothes |  |  |  | of the Sun | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle | hanging *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the skins of strange animals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **trim** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with fine feathers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feather=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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