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title: Four times the strange husband went hunting, always disappearing at… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Four times the strange husband went hunting, always disappearing at the lodge door in his mysterious way, always accompanied by thunder, going and coming, never leaving any footprints beyond the lodge. Who acts: strange husband. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 82

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Four times the strange husband went hunting, always disappearing at the lodge door in his mysterious way, always accompanied by thunder, going and coming, never leaving any footprints beyond the lodge.

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**Who acts:** strange husband · **What happens:** go, hunt, disappear, accompany, come, not leave · **To what, where:** lodge door, mysterious way, footprints, lodge

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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 (strange 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:pg66596:12:82
# text = Four times the strange husband went hunting, always disappearing at the lodge door in his mysterious way, always accompanied by thunder, going and coming, never leaving any footprints beyond the lodge.
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	footprints	footprint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the strange husband |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | the strange husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **disappear** | gerund | the strange husband *not said here* |  |  | the lodge door |  | in husband's mysterious way; always *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **accompany** | participle |  | husband's mysterious way *not said here* |  |  |  | by thunder; always *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by thunder=Destination |
| 5 | **go** | gerund | the strange husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **come** | gerund | the strange husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **leave** | gerund | the strange husband *not said here* | any footprints |  | the lodge |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent footprint=Theme beyond lodge=Location |

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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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