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title: A long time ago there lived in the Blackfoot camp a young man who di… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: A long time ago there lived in the Blackfoot camp a young man who did not like company. Who acts: young man. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 1

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A long time ago there lived in the Blackfoot camp a young man who did not like company.

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**Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** live, camp, not like · **To what, where:** young man, Blackfoot, company

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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:pg66596:15:1
# text = A long time ago there lived in the Blackfoot camp a young man who did not like company.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Blackfoot	Blackfoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	camp	camp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  |  |  | there | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **camp** | present |  | a young man |  | the Blackfoot |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme in blackfoot=Location |
| 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | a young man | company |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot company=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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