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title: “Surely mysterious things are happening about here,” said Low Wolf,… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: “Surely mysterious things are happening about here,” said Low Wolf, “and I suspect your husband is not what he seems to be. Who acts: mysterious things, Low Wolf, husband. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, wi
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 66

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“Surely mysterious things are happening about here,” said Low Wolf, “and I suspect your husband is not what he seems to be.

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**Who acts:** mysterious things, Low Wolf, husband · **What happens:** happen, say, suspect, not be, seem, be · **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 (mysterious things, Low Wolf, husband), 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:pg66596:12:66
# text = “Surely mysterious things are happening about here,” said Low Wolf, “and I suspect your husband is not what he seems to be.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	suspect	suspect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	parataxis	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** *in a quote* | present · progressive | mysterious things |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about here=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Low Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **suspect** *in a quote* | present | Low Wolf *= wolf* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | your husband |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | husband |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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