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title: For Plover Call’s new husband was Cold Maker, he who brings the fier… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: For Plover Call’s new husband was Cold Maker, he who brings the fierce storms, the biting wind, and drifting, whirling snow from out the north. Who acts: new husband, Maker. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 133

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For Plover Call’s new husband was Cold Maker, he who brings the fierce storms, the biting wind, and drifting, whirling snow from out the north.

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**Who acts:** new husband, Maker · **What happens:** be, bring, drift, whirl · **To what, where:** fierce storms, snow

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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 (new husband, Maker), 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:pg66596:12:133
# text = For Plover Call’s new husband was Cold Maker, he who brings the fierce storms, the biting wind, and drifting, whirling snow from out the north.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
2	Plover	Plover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Call	Call	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Maker	Maker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	biting	biting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	drifting	drift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	whirling	whirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
26	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | new husband |  |  |  |  | for Plover Call's Cold Maker; Plover Call *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present | Maker | the fierce storms and the biting wind |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent storm=Theme |
| 3 | **drift** | gerund | Maker *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **whirl** | gerund | Maker *not said here* | snow |  |  |  | the north *obj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent snow=Theme north=Result |

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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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