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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 69

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This seems to you like a hard thing, something that cannot be done, but, by the power that I give you, you will be able to do it.”

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**Who acts:** This, you, I, power · **What happens:** seem, like, not do, give, be, do · **To what, where:** hard thing, power, you

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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 (This, you, I, power), 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:pg66596:15:69
# text = This seems to you like a hard thing, something that cannot be done, but, by the power that I give you, you will be able to do it.”
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	appos	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **like** | present | you | a hard thing |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **do** | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality |
| 4 | **give** | present | I | the power | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient that=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | future | the power |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; able *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | the power *not said here* | power |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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