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title: It was hard for the man who had led such an active life to sit idly… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was hard for the man who had led such an active life to sit idly in his lodge day after day. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 48

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It was hard for the man who had led such an active life to sit idly in his lodge day after day.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, lead, sit · **To what, where:** active life

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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 (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:pg66596:13:48
# text = It was hard for the man who had led such an active life to sit idly in his lodge day after day.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
16	idly	idly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the man; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | past · perfect | the man | such active life |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  | day | idly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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