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title: One evening the young woman was again chopping wood by the river, an… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening the young woman was again chopping wood by the river, and, again looking up, she saw a man standing near her, wearing his robe hair side out. Who acts: young woman, woman, man. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker a
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 89

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One evening the young woman was again chopping wood by the river, and, again looking up, she saw a man standing near her, wearing his robe hair side out.

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**Who acts:** young woman, woman, man · **What happens:** chop, look up, see, stand, wear · **To what, where:** wood, man, hair side

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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 (young woman, woman, man), 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:pg66596:12:89
# text = One evening the young woman was again chopping wood by the river, and, again looking up, she saw a man standing near her, wearing his robe hair side out.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	chopping	chop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	near	near	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	conj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
33	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop** | past · progressive | the young woman | wood |  |  | again; evening | by the river | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wood=Patient by river=Location |
| 2 | **look up** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | woman | a man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near woman | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near she=Location |
| 5 | **wear** | gerund | a man *not said here* | husband's hair side |  |  |  | out *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent side=Source |

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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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