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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 100

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Although he had appeared rather strangely, and, like the Thunder Maker, had said he came from a far country, there was nothing that seemed either odd or mysterious about Plover Call’s new husband.

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**Who acts:** Maker, nothing · **What happens:** appear, say, come, be, seem · **To what, where:** far country · **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, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maker, nothing), 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:pg66596:12:100
# text = Although he had appeared rather strangely, and, like the Thunder Maker, had said he came from a far country, there was nothing that seemed either odd or mysterious about Plover Call’s new husband.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Maker	Maker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	25	nsubj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc:preconj	_	_
30	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	Plover	Plover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Call	Call	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past · perfect | Maker |  |  |  |  | strangely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | Maker *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the Thunder Maker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | Maker |  |  | a far country |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  | odd *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |

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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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