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title: Then Nothing Child took a tanned elk-skin and covered the bushes wit… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Nothing Child took a tanned elk-skin and covered the bushes with it. Who acts: Nothing Child. 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 clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 164

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Then Nothing Child took a tanned elk-skin and covered the bushes with it.

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**Who acts:** Nothing Child · **What happens:** take, tan, cover · **To what, where:** tanned elk skin, bushes

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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 (Nothing Child), 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:pg66596:15:164
# text = Then Nothing Child took a tanned elk-skin and covered the bushes with it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	tanned	tan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	elk	elk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Nothing Child | a tanned elk skin |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 2 | **tan** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cover** | past | Nothing Child *not said here* | the bushes |  |  |  | with skin | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bush=Destination with it=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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