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title: He visited but little from lodge to lodge, for he did not like to as… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: He visited but little from lodge to lodge, for he did not like to ask any one to lead him about here and there. Who acts: man, one. 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 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 49

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He visited but little from lodge to lodge, for he did not like to ask any one to lead him about here and there.

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**Who acts:** man, one · **What happens:** visit, not like, ask, lead · **To what, where:** lodge, one, man

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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, one), 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:pg66596:13:49
# text = He visited but little from lodge to lodge, for he did not like to ask any one to lead him about here and there.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | man |  |  | lodge to lodge |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | any one |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **lead** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | any one *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme about here=Destination |

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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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