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title: After the boy and the bear had left the camp, the older brother kept… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: After the boy and the bear had left the camp, the older brother kept thinking of what had taken place. Who acts: older brother. 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 46

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After the boy and the bear had left the camp, the older brother kept thinking of what had taken place.

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**Who acts:** older brother · **What happens:** leave, keep, think, take · **To what, where:** boy, place

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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 (older brother), 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:pg66596:15:46
# text = After the boy and the bear had left the camp, the older brother kept thinking of what had taken place.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect · passive |  | the boy and the bear |  |  |  | the camp *obj* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme camp=Attribute |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the older brother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the older brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past · perfect |  | place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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