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title: Hardy and warmly furred as they were they feared the deep snow and t… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hardy and warmly furred as they were they feared the deep snow and the cold of the mountain country. Who acts: herds. 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 cla
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 5

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Hardy and warmly furred as they were they feared the deep snow and the cold of the mountain country.

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**Who acts:** herds · **What happens:** fur, be

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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 (herds), 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:pg66596:12:5
# text = Hardy and warmly furred as they were they feared the deep snow and the cold of the mountain country.
1	Hardy	hardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	furred	fur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fur** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | warmly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | herds *= herd* |  |  |  |  | the deep snow and the cold of the mountain country *obj*; fear *property* | tree rules |

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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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