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title: I can change myself into a raven and can do many other things, but I… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: I can change myself into a raven and can do many other things, but I cannot make ripe berries grow in the spring, nor can I do many other things that Nothing Child does.” Who acts: I, ripe berries, Nothing Child. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird G
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 168

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I can change myself into a raven and can do many other things, but I cannot make ripe berries grow in the spring, nor can I do many other things that Nothing Child does.”

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**Who acts:** I, ripe berries, Nothing Child · **What happens:** change, do, not make, grow · **To what, where:** myself, raven, many other things

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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 (I, ripe berries, 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:pg66596:15:168
# text = I can change myself into a raven and can do many other things, but I cannot make ripe berries grow in the spring, nor can I do many other things that Nothing Child does.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
20	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	30	cc	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
31	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
35	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | can | I | myself |  |  |  | into a raven *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into raven=Result |
| 2 | **do** | can | I *not said here* | many other things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **make** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow** | present | ripe berries |  |  |  | spring |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | can | I | many other things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 6 | **do** | present | Nothing Child | many other things |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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