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title: The following morning Plover Call’s husband again started out with h… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The following morning Plover Call’s husband again started out with his bow and arrows, and, as before, as soon as he left it thundered for a long time. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, wit
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 73

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The following morning Plover Call’s husband again started out with his bow and arrows, and, as before, as soon as he left it thundered for a long time.

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** follow, start out, leave, thunder · **To what, where:** fall

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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 (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:pg66596:12:73
# text = The following morning Plover Call’s husband again started out with his bow and arrows, and, as before, as soon as he left it thundered for a long time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Plover	Plover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Call	Call	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	thundered	thunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start out** | past |  |  |  |  | again; morning | with husband's bow and arrows | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with bow=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **leave** | past | husband | fall |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **thunder** | past |  |  |  |  | time | soon *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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