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title: One day, while the young brother was sitting in the lodge making arr… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, while the young brother was sitting in the lodge making arrows, and the woman was outside tanning a hide, she called to him and said, “Oh, brother, come out and kill this pretty bird that is here,” but the boy was busy smoothing his arrows, and paid no attention. Who acts: young brother, lo
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 13

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One day, while the young brother was sitting in the lodge making arrows, and the woman was outside tanning a hide, she called to him and said, “Oh, brother, come out and kill this pretty bird that is here,” but the boy was busy smoothing his arrows, and paid no attention.

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**Who acts:** young brother, lodge, woman, pretty bird, boy · **What happens:** sit, make, tan, call, say, come out · **To what, where:** One day, lodge, arrows, hide, brother, pretty bird · **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 (young brother, lodge, woman, pretty bird), 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:pg66596:15:13
# text = One day, while the young brother was sitting in the lodge making arrows, and the woman was outside tanning a hide, she called to him and said, “Oh, brother, come out and kill this pretty bird that is here,” but the boy was busy smoothing his arrows, and paid no attention.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	tanning	tan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	37	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
35	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
38	out	out	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
41	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
54	smoothing	smooth	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	53	advcl	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
60	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	61	det	_	_
61	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	59	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the young brother | One day *not said here* |  | the lodge |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent day=Theme in lodge=Location |
| 2 | **make** | gerund | the lodge *not said here* | arrows |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arrow=Product |
| 3 | **tan** | past · progressive | the woman | a hide |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | past | woman |  | brother |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **come out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this pretty bird |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this pretty bird |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **smooth** | gerund | the boy *not said here* | brother's arrows |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient |
| 11 | **pay** | past |  | no attention |  |  | day |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |

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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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