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title: Then presently Plover Call heard something heavy fall by the doorway… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then presently Plover Call heard something heavy fall by the doorway, and her husband entering, said: “Well, I got the deer for you. Who acts: Plover, husband entering. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, with 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 63

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Then presently Plover Call heard something heavy fall by the doorway, and her husband entering, said: “Well, I got the deer for you.

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**Who acts:** Plover, husband entering · **What happens:** hear, say, get, enter · **To what, where:** something, deer · **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 (Plover, husband entering), 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:pg66596:12:63
# text = Then presently Plover Call heard something heavy fall by the doorway, and her husband entering, said: “Well, I got the deer for you.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	Plover	Plover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Call	Call	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	entering	entering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Plover | something |  |  | then | by the doorway; presently *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Plover's husband entering |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Plover's husband entering *= entering* | the deer |  |  |  | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent deer=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **enter** |  | Plover |  |  |  |  |  | nom entering «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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