--- title: Sun Dog removed the robes and brought Scarface before the Sun. The S… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: Sun Dog removed the robes and brought Scarface before the Sun. The Sun looked at Scarface a short time, and turning to the Moon, bade her make Scarface as handsome as their own son, and give him some nice clothes to wear. Who acts: Sun, Sun., bade. 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The Sun looked at Scarface a short time, and turning to the Moon, bade her make Scarface as handsome as their own son, and give him some nice clothes to wear. **Who acts:** Sun, Sun., bade · **What happens:** remove, bring, look, turn, make, give · **To what, where:** robes, Scarface, nice clothes 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 (Sun, Sun., bade), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:11:68 # text = Sun Dog removed the robes and brought Scarface before the Sun. The Sun looked at Scarface a short time, and turning to the Moon, bade her make Scarface as handsome as their own son, and give him some nice clothes to wear. 1 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Dog Dog PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 removed remove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 Scarface scarface NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 before before SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Sun. Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Scarface scarface NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 bade bade NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 acl _ _ 29 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 30 Scarface scarface NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ _ 33 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 iobj _ _ 41 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 43 det _ _ 42 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 39 obj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remove** | past | Sun | the robes | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme | | 2 | **bring** | past | Sun *not said here* | Scarface | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent scarface=Theme | | 3 | **look** | past | the Sun. | | | | time | at Scarface; the Sun *nsubj* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at scarface=Theme | | 4 | **turn** | gerund | | | | | | to the Moon *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to moon=Result | | 5 | **make** | infinitive | bade scar | Scarface | | | | handsome *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scarface=Product | | 6 | **give** | infinitive | Sun *not said here* | some nice clothes | Scarface | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clothes=Theme | | 7 | **wear** | to-infinitive | Sun *not said here* | some nice clothes *not said here* | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/11/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/11/69/) - ↑ back to [The First Medicine Lodge](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/11/)