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title: The Moon took Sun Dog and Scarface before the Sun and said, “O Sun,… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moon took Sun Dog and Scarface before the Sun and said, “O Sun, tell me which is Sun Dog.” Who acts: Moon, Sun. 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 clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 71

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The Moon took Sun Dog and Scarface before the Sun and said, “O Sun, tell me which is Sun Dog.”

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**Who acts:** Moon, Sun · **What happens:** take, say, tell, be · **To what, where:** Sun Dog, Moon · **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 (Moon, Sun), 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:pg66596:11:71
# text = The Moon took Sun Dog and Scarface before the Sun and said, “O Sun, tell me which is Sun Dog.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Scarface	scarface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Moon | Sun Dog |  |  | before the Sun | Scarface *conj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Theme before sun=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | Sun |  | the Moon *= moon* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | Sun Dog |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | 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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