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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 125

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Thunder Maker sprang into the air in fury, and more fearfully than ever the lightning flashed from his eyes.

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**Who acts:** Thunder · **What happens:** spring, flash · **To what, where:** air, eyes

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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 (Thunder), 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:pg66596:12:125
# text = Thunder Maker sprang into the air in fury, and more fearfully than ever the lightning flashed from his eyes.
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Maker	Maker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
3	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring** | past | Thunder |  |  | the air |  | in fury | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination |
| 2 | **flash** | past | Thunder *not said here* |  |  | Maker's eyes |  | than the lightning; fearfully *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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