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title: The lodge was painted, the woman’s clothing was beautifully worked w… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The lodge was painted, the woman’s clothing was beautifully worked with porcupine quills; there was a new full set of war clothing for himself—all very fine. Who acts: new full set. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child, with it
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 151

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The lodge was painted, the woman’s clothing was beautifully worked with porcupine quills; there was a new full set of war clothing for himself—all very fine.

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**Who acts:** new full set · **What happens:** paint, work, be · **To what, where:** lodge, clothing

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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 (new full set), 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:pg66596:15:151
# text = The lodge was painted, the woman’s clothing was beautifully worked with porcupine quills; there was a new full set of war clothing for himself—all very fine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	quills	quill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nsubj	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past · passive |  | the lodge |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **work** | past · passive |  | the woman's clothing |  |  |  | with porcupine quills; beautifully *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
| 3 | **be** | past | a new full set of war clothing for set |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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