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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 67

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Be sure to do exactly as I tell you from this time on, and in the days to come you will be unhappy no longer, but will have plenty of everything and will have full life.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** be, do, tell on, come, have · **To what, where:** you, plenty, full life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, I), 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:pg66596:15:67
# text = Be sure to do exactly as I tell you from this time on, and in the days to come you will be unhappy no longer, but will have plenty of everything and will have full life.
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
31	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
37	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell on** *speech: assert* | present | I |  | you |  | time | exactly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | future | you |  |  |  | day | long, unhappy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | future |  | plenty of everything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 7 | **have** | future |  | full life |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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