--- title: He ate the lodge and the lining, his clothing, his wife’s things—eve… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: He ate the lodge and the lining, his clothing, his wife’s things—everything that he could find in the lodge, and then took his bow and arrows and started to go to the cliff as the bear had told him to. Who acts: man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:15:72 # text = He ate the lodge and the lining, his clothing, his wife’s things—everything that he could find in the lodge, and then took his bow and arrows and started to go to the cliff as the bear had told him to. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lodge lodge NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lining lining NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 clothing clothing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 — - PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 15 appos _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 acl:relcl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 lodge lodge NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 arrows arrow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cliff cliff NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 advcl _ _ 45 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 iobj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 44 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past | man | the lodge and the lining and man's clothing | | | | man's wife's things *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodge=Patient | | 2 | **find** | could | man | | | the lodge | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **take** | past | | man's bow and arrows | | | then | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | | 4 | **start** | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | the cliff | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to cliff=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | the bear | man | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/15/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/15/73/) - ↑ back to [Nothing Child](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/15/)