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title: Now, when Raven Arrow’s wife saw this she felt that she too would li… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now, when Raven Arrow’s wife saw this she felt that she too would like some berries, and she asked her husband if he could do this. Who acts: wife, woman, husband. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child, with its dependency tree 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 166

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Now, when Raven Arrow’s wife saw this she felt that she too would like some berries, and she asked her husband if he could do this.

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**Who acts:** wife, woman, husband · **What happens:** see, feel, like, ask, do · **To what, where:** this, berries, husband · **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, woman, husband), 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:pg66596:15:166
# text = Now, when Raven Arrow’s wife saw this she felt that she too would like some berries, and she asked her husband if he could do this.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	too	too	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Raven Arrow's wife | this |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **like** | would | woman | some berries |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot berry=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | woman |  | woman's husband |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | husband | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |

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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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