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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 52

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Your brother has climbed this tree and has gone out of sight, and now for three days I have stood here, waiting for him to come down.

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**Who acts:** I, brother · **What happens:** climb, go out, stand, wait, come down · **To what, where:** brother, sight

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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, 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:pg66596:15:52
# text = Your brother has climbed this tree and has gone out of sight, and now for three days I have stood here, waiting for him to come down.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	climbed	climb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	down	down	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | present · perfect · passive |  | Your brother |  |  |  | this tree *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | present · perfect |  | sight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | present · perfect | I |  |  | here | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come down** | to-infinitive | brother |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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