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title: Scarface was ashamed to enter this beautiful lodge, for his clothes… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scarface was ashamed to enter this beautiful lodge, for his clothes were poor and his moccasins were worn with travel; but Sun Dog said to him, “Enter, my new friend, and fear nothing.” Who acts: Scarface, clothes, Sun Dog. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by Ge
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 57

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Scarface was ashamed to enter this beautiful lodge, for his clothes were poor and his moccasins were worn with travel; but Sun Dog said to him, “Enter, my new friend, and fear nothing.”

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**Who acts:** Scarface, clothes, Sun Dog · **What happens:** be, enter, wear, say, fear · **To what, where:** beautiful lodge, moccasins, Scarface, nothing · **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 (Scarface, clothes, Sun Dog), 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:pg66596:11:57
# text = Scarface was ashamed to enter this beautiful lodge, for his clothes were poor and his moccasins were worn with travel; but Sun Dog said to him, “Enter, my new friend, and fear nothing.”
1	Scarface	scarface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	26	nsubj	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Enter	enter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	fear	fear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Scarface |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enter** | to-infinitive | Scarface *not said here* | this beautiful lodge |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lodge=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | Scarface's clothes |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wear** | past · passive |  | Scarface's moccasins |  |  |  | with travel | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sun Dog |  | Scarface |  |  | Enter *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 6 | **fear** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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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