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title: I want you to take a rope and tie me by the feet to the lodge poles,… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: I want you to take a rope and tie me by the feet to the lodge poles, so that I may hang head downward from the poles. Who acts: I, you. 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 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 145

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I want you to take a rope and tie me by the feet to the lodge poles, so that I may hang head downward from the poles.

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**Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** want, take, tie, hang · **To what, where:** you, rope, me, head, poles

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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 (I, you), 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:pg66596:15:145
# text = I want you to take a rope and tie me by the feet to the lodge poles, so that I may hang head downward from the poles.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a rope |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 3 | **tie** | infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | by the feet; to the lodge poles | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient to pole=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **hang** | may | I | head |  | the poles |  | downward *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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