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title: When Shield Quiver found that the Snakes had only just moved from th… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When Shield Quiver found that the Snakes had only just moved from there, he said to his wife: “Here, let us get back in the brush. Who acts: Shield, us. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Shield Quiver’s Wife, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 32

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When Shield Quiver found that the Snakes had only just moved from there, he said to his wife: “Here, let us get back in the brush.

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**Who acts:** Shield, us · **What happens:** find, move, say, let, get back · **To what, where:** Snakes, wife, us, brush · **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, Shield Quiver’s Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shield, us), 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:pg66596:16:32
# text = When Shield Quiver found that the Snakes had only just moved from there, he said to his wife: “Here, let us get back in the brush.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Shield	Shield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Quiver	Quiver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
25	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Shield |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Snakes |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from there=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Shield |  | Shield's wife |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get back** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | the brush |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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