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title: After a time Raven Arrow became jealous of Nothing Child because of… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time Raven Arrow became jealous of Nothing Child because of his power, but Nothing Child did not notice this, and, because Raven Arrow was poor, he asked him to come and live with him in his lodge. Who acts: Raven, Nothing Child, Raven Arrow. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 158

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After a time Raven Arrow became jealous of Nothing Child because of his power, but Nothing Child did not notice this, and, because Raven Arrow was poor, he asked him to come and live with him in his lodge.

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**Who acts:** Raven, Nothing Child, Raven Arrow · **What happens:** become, not notice, be, ask, come, live · **To what, where:** this, husband, lodge

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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 (Raven, Nothing Child, Raven Arrow), 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:pg66596:15:158
# text = After a time Raven Arrow became jealous of Nothing Child because of his power, but Nothing Child did not notice this, and, because Raven Arrow was poor, he asked him to come and live with him in his lodge.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	iobj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Raven |  |  |  | time | jealous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **notice** | past · do-support | Nothing Child | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Raven Arrow |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | raven |  | husband |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | raven *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | infinitive | raven *not said here* |  |  | husband's lodge |  | with husband | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |

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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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