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title: “Hold on,” said the chiefs, coming up; “why all this hurry? — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Hold on,” said the chiefs, coming up; “why all this hurry? Who acts: you, chiefs. 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 16

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“Hold on,” said the chiefs, coming up; “why all this hurry?

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**Who acts:** you, chiefs · **What happens:** hold on, say, come up · **To what, where:** hurry · **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, chiefs), 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:pg66596:12:16
# text = “Hold on,” said the chiefs, coming up; “why all this hurry?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	ccomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold on** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | all hurry |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the chiefs |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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