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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 75

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In the morning before leaving the lodge, the Sun called the young men to him and said, “My children, do not go near that lodge by the river, for in it live four large white birds with long bills with which they pluck out people’s hearts.

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**Who acts:** morning, Sun, men · **What happens:** leave, call, say, not go, live, pluck out · **To what, where:** lodge, young men, Moon, four large white birds, hearts · **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 (morning, Sun, men), 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:pg66596:11:75
# text = In the morning before leaving the lodge, the Sun called the young men to him and said, “My children, do not go near that lodge by the river, for in it live four large white birds with long bills with which they pluck out people’s hearts.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
27	near	near	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
37	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
38	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
39	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	bills	bill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	48	obl	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	pluck	pluck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
49	out	out	ADP	RP	_	48	compound:prt	_	_
50	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | the morning *not said here* | the lodge |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | past | the Sun | the young men | Moon |  | morning |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | My children *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  | that lodge |  | by the river | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near lodge=Location |
| 5 | **live** *in a quote* | present |  | four large white birds |  |  |  | for medicine; with long bills | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme bird=Location |
| 6 | **pluck out** *in a quote* | present | men *= man* | people's hearts |  |  |  | with long bills | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |

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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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