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title: Many years ago there was a Nez Percé Indian whose name was Ragged He… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many years ago there was a Nez Percé Indian whose name was Ragged Head. Who acts: Ragged Head, Nez Percé. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 1

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Many years ago there was a Nez Percé Indian whose name was Ragged Head.

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**Who acts:** Ragged Head, Nez Percé · **What happens:** be, name · **To what, where:** Ragged Head

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ragged Head, Nez Percé), 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:pg66596:14:1
# text = Many years ago there was a Nez Percé Indian whose name was Ragged Head.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
7	Nez	Nez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Percé	Percé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	Ragged	ragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a Ragged Head |  |  | there | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Nez Percé | a Ragged Head |  |  |  | a Ragged Head's Indian name *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | a Ragged Head |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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