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title: He sent out his young brother to hang up the meat that he had brough… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: He sent out his young brother to hang up the meat that he had brought in, and the boy went leaving arrows lying by the fire to dry. Who acts: hair, boy, arrows. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child, with its dependency tree and
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 21

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He sent out his young brother to hang up the meat that he had brought in, and the boy went leaving arrows lying by the fire to dry.

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**Who acts:** hair, boy, arrows · **What happens:** send out, hang up, bring in, go, leave, lie · **To what, where:** young brother, meat, arrows

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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 (hair, boy, arrows), 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:pg66596:15:21
# text = He sent out his young brother to hang up the meat that he had brought in, and the boy went leaving arrows lying by the fire to dry.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send out** | past | hair | hair's young brother |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |
| 2 | **hang up** | to-infinitive | hair *not said here* | the meat |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
| 3 | **bring in** | past · perfect | hair |  |  |  |  |  | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | the boy *not said here* | arrows |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
| 6 | **lie** | gerund | arrows *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 7 | **dry** | to-infinitive | arrows *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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