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title: Some had foxes and some had other animals, but when Nothing Child we… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some had foxes and some had other animals, but when Nothing Child went to his trap, he found in it a white fox with a black-tipped tail, and when it was taken to the chief’s lodge he said that this was the fox he meant, and he told his daughters to get ready and go and marry the Nothing Child. Who a
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 108

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Some had foxes and some had other animals, but when Nothing Child went to his trap, he found in it a white fox with a black-tipped tail, and when it was taken to the chief’s lodge he said that this was the fox he meant, and he told his daughters to get ready and go and marry the Nothing Child.

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**Who acts:** Some, Nothing Child, man, this · **What happens:** have, go, find, tip, take, say · **To what, where:** foxes, other animals, trap, white fox, place, it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Some, Nothing Child, man, this), 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:pg66596:15:108
# text = Some had foxes and some had other animals, but when Nothing Child went to his trap, he found in it a white fox with a black-tipped tail, and when it was taken to the chief’s lodge he said that this was the fox he meant, and he told his daughters to get ready and go and marry the Nothing Child.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	tipped	tip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	acl:relcl	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	ccomp	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	iobj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	ccomp	_	_
60	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	xcomp	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	conj	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	conj	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	_
67	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Some | foxes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | some | other animals |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | past | Nothing Child |  |  | man's trap |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to trap=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **find** | past | man | a white fox |  | place |  | with a tipped tail | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 5 | **tip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** | past · passive |  | it |  | the chief's lodge |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to lodge=Destination |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man | the chief's lodge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lodge=Topic |
| 8 | **is a** | past | this | the fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **mean** | past | man | the fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 10 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | man |  | man's daughters |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 11 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 12 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 13 | **marry** | infinitive |  | the Nothing Child |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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