--- title: Shield Quiver said to his wife: “While we have to wait, I will fix u… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: Shield Quiver said to his wife: “While we have to wait, I will fix up a little shelter of brush here, so that we may keep dry; but to-night we will go to the camp and take horses.” Who acts: Shield, we. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/) / [Shield Quiver’s Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/) / 38 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 38 Shield Quiver said to his wife: “While we have to wait, I will fix up a little shelter of brush here, so that we may keep dry; but to-night we will go to the camp and take horses.” **Who acts:** Shield, we · **What happens:** say, have, wait, fix up, keep, go · **To what, where:** wife, little shelter, camp, horses · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, we), 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:pg66596:16:38 # text = Shield Quiver said to his wife: “While we have to wait, I will fix up a little shelter of brush here, so that we may keep dry; but to-night we will go to the camp and take horses.” 1 Shield Shield PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Quiver Quiver PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 While while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 fix fix VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 shelter shelter NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 30 mark _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 fixed _ _ 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 31 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 37 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 camp camp NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 45 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **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 | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fix up** *in a quote* | future | Shield | a little shelter of brush | | here | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shelter=Patient | | 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | may | we | | | | | dry *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | future | we | | | the camp | night | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | we *not said here* | | horses | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/39/) - ↑ back to [Shield Quiver’s Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/)