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title: Raven Arrow promised that he would never again do so, and Nothing Ch… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Raven Arrow promised that he would never again do so, and Nothing Child untied him and let him down, when he changed into a man again. Who acts: Raven Arrow, raven, Nothing Child. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child, with its 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 184

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Raven Arrow promised that he would never again do so, and Nothing Child untied him and let him down, when he changed into a man again.

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**Who acts:** Raven Arrow, raven, Nothing Child · **What happens:** promise, do, untie, let down, change · **To what, where:** raven

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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 Arrow, raven, 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:pg66596:15:184
# text = Raven Arrow promised that he would never again do so, and Nothing Child untied him and let him down, when he changed into a man again.
1	Raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Arrow	Arrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	untied	untie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Raven Arrow |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | would | raven |  |  |  | again; never |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **untie** | past | Nothing Child | raven |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **let down** | infinitive | Nothing Child *not said here* | raven |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **change** | past | raven |  |  |  | again | into a man *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into man=Result |

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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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