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title: “Will you promise never to return; never to trouble us again?” he as… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Will you promise never to return; never to trouble us again?” he asked. Who acts: you, Maker. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 135

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“Will you promise never to return; never to trouble us again?” he asked.

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**Who acts:** you, Maker · **What happens:** promise, not return, ask · **To what, where:** trouble · **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 (you, 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:pg66596:12:135
# text = “Will you promise never to return; never to trouble us again?” he asked.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | future | you | trouble  us |  |  | again |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **return** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Maker |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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