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title: “My son, you are a man who need not fear to go into battle, for neit… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: “My son, you are a man who need not fear to go into battle, for neither arrow nor bullet nor lance nor knife can hurt you. Who acts: son, man, arrow. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 7

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“My son, you are a man who need not fear to go into battle, for neither arrow nor bullet nor lance nor knife can hurt you.

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**Who acts:** son, man, arrow · **What happens:** be, not fear, go, hurt · **To what, where:** man, battle, you

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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 (son, man, arrow), 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:pg66596:14:7
# text = “My son, you are a man who need not fear to go into battle, for neither arrow nor bullet nor lance nor knife can hurt you.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	22	cc	_	_
22	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
24	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	26	cc	_	_
26	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | My son | a man |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fear** *in a quote* | present | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  | battle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into battle=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **hurt** *in a quote* | can | neither arrow nor bullet nor lance nor knife | you |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |

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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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