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title: When it was time for the Sun to come home, Sun Dog hid Scarface and… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When it was time for the Sun to come home, Sun Dog hid Scarface and covered him up with robes. Who acts: pity, Sun Dog. 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 the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 64

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When it was time for the Sun to come home, Sun Dog hid Scarface and covered him up with robes.

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**Who acts:** pity, Sun Dog · **What happens:** be, come, hide, cover up · **To what, where:** time, Scarface

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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 (pity, 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:pg66596:11:64
# text = When it was time for the Sun to come home, Sun Dog hid Scarface and covered him up with robes.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	advcl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	_	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Scarface	scarface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | pity | time |  |  |  | for the Sun | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | Sun Dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | past | Sun Dog | Scarface |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scarface=Patient |
| 4 | **cover up** | past | Sun Dog *not said here* |  | Scarface |  |  | with robes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with robe=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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