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title: One day, in the early summer, Nothing Child’s wife said to him, “Oh,… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, in the early summer, Nothing Child’s wife said to him, “Oh, how much I would like some fresh berries to eat!” Who acts: wife. 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 c
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 160

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One day, in the early summer, Nothing Child’s wife said to him, “Oh, how much I would like some fresh berries to eat!”

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** say, like, eat · **To what, where:** husband, much · **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 (wife), 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:pg66596:15:160
# text = One day, in the early summer, Nothing Child’s wife said to him, “Oh, how much I would like some fresh berries to eat!”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	24	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Nothing's wife |  | husband |  | day |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **like** *in a quote* | would | Nothing's wife *= wife* | much |  |  |  | some fresh berries *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Nothing's wife *= wife* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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