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description: If there are any sick or dying among your people, in order to make them well you must build the Medicine Lodge. Who acts: sick, you. 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 o
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 93

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If there are any sick or dying among your people, in order to make them well you must build the Medicine Lodge.

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**Who acts:** sick, you · **What happens:** be, die, make, build · **To what, where:** people, Medicine Lodge

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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 (sick, you), 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:pg66596:11:93
# text = If there are any sick or dying among your people, in order to make them well you must build the Medicine Lodge.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
13	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	fixed	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Medicine	Medicine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Lodge	Lodge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | any sick |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | any sick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among your people | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **build** | must | you | the Medicine Lodge |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Product |

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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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