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description: “The other one,” he said, “that Thunder Maker, has been gone a long time, and I am sure he will never return. Who acts: Wolf. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 98

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“The other one,” he said, “that Thunder Maker, has been gone a long time, and I am sure he will never return.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** say, go, be, not return · **To what, where:** Thunder Maker · **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 (Wolf), 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:pg66596:12:98
# text = “The other one,” he said, “that Thunder Maker, has been gone a long time, and I am sure he will never return.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Thunder	Thunder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Maker	Maker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Wolf |  |  |  |  | the other one *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Thunder Maker  that |  |  | time |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Wolf |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **return** *in a quote* | future | Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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