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title: One demanded two horses, another a gun and blanket, another three ho… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: One demanded two horses, another a gun and blanket, another three horses; another would not step inside the lodge until he had been paid ten horses. Who acts: One, another. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, wit
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 43

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One demanded two horses, another a gun and blanket, another three horses; another would not step inside the lodge until he had been paid ten horses.

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**Who acts:** One, another · **What happens:** demand, not step, pay · **To what, where:** two horses, lodge, One

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, another), 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:pg66596:13:43
# text = One demanded two horses, another a gun and blanket, another three horses; another would not step inside the lodge until he had been paid ten horses.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
28	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | One | two horses and another three horses |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horse=Precondition |
| 2 | **not** **step** | would | another |  |  | the lodge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside lodge=Trajectory |
| 3 | **pay** | past · perfect · passive |  | One |  |  |  | ten horses *obj* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient horse=Asset |

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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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