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title: She worked hard to provide things as of old, by tanning for a share… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: She worked hard to provide things as of old, by tanning for a share the hides and skins brought in by hunters. Who acts: wife. 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 ev
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 51

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She worked hard to provide things as of old, by tanning for a share the hides and skins brought in by hunters.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** work, provide, tan, bring in · **To what, where:** things, hides

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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 (wife), 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:pg66596:13:51
# text = She worked hard to provide things as of old, by tanning for a share the hides and skins brought in by hunters.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	provide	provide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	tanning	tan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **provide** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | things |  |  |  | as old | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition thing=Theme |
| 3 | **tan** | gerund | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a share and the hides and skins | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring in** | participle |  | the hides and skins *not said here* |  |  |  | by hunters | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: 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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