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title: Of an evening the chiefs and warriors would assemble in his lodge as… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of an evening the chiefs and warriors would assemble in his lodge as before, to smoke and talk and cheer his spirits. Who acts: chiefs. 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 pragmat
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 54

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Of an evening the chiefs and warriors would assemble in his lodge as before, to smoke and talk and cheer his spirits.

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**Who acts:** chiefs · **What happens:** assemble, smoke, talk, cheer · **To what, where:** lodge, spirits

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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 (chiefs), 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:pg66596:13:54
# text = Of an evening the chiefs and warriors would assemble in his lodge as before, to smoke and talk and cheer his spirits.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	assemble	assemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	smoke	smoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cheer	cheer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | would | the chiefs and warriors |  |  | man's lodge | evening |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **smoke** | to-infinitive | the chiefs and warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **talk** | infinitive | the chiefs and warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cheer** | infinitive | the chiefs and warriors *not said here* | man's spirits |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spirit=Experiencer |

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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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