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title: Let one woman make the medicine, another cut thin and dry the tongue… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Let one woman make the medicine, another cut thin and dry the tongues, and the other two boil the tongues. Who acts: Let one woman, other two. 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 pr
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 96

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Let one woman make the medicine, another cut thin and dry the tongues, and the other two boil the tongues.

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**Who acts:** Let one woman, other two · **What happens:** let, make, dry, boil · **To what, where:** medicine, tongues

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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 (Let one woman, other two), 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:pg66596:11:96
# text = Let one woman make the medicine, another cut thin and dry the tongues, and the other two boil the tongues.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nsubj	_	_
20	boil	boil	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present | Let one woman | the medicine and another cut |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Product |
| 3 | **dry** | infinitive | Let one woman *not said here* | the tongues |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tongue=Result |
| 4 | **boil** | present | the other two | the tongues |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=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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