--- title: He opened the medicine bag and took from it a long pipe stem painted… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: He opened the medicine bag and took from it a long pipe stem painted red and black, to which was tied a small buckskin sack, ornamented with the feathers of certain small birds, and curious claws and teeth. Who acts: man, long pipe stem, curious claws. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, long pipe stem, curious claws), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:13:26 # text = He opened the medicine bag and took from it a long pipe stem painted red and black, to which was tied a small buckskin sack, ornamented with the feathers of certain small birds, and curious claws and teeth. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 painted paint VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obl _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 buckskin buckskin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 ornamented ornament VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 curious curious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | man | the medicine bag | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | | 2 | **take** | past | man *not said here* | | | bag | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from it=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **paint** | past | a long pipe stem | | | | | red *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tie** | past · passive | a long pipe stem *not said here* | a small buckskin sack | | | | which *obl* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: sack=Patient to which=Co-Patient | | 5 | **ornament** | participle | | a small buckskin sack *not said here* | | | | with the feathers of certain small birds | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feather=Theme | | 6 | **tooth** | | curious claws | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/27/) - ↑ back to [The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/13/)