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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 58

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She answered: “No, there are some things that I have here that I want to get.

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**Who acts:** tribe · **What happens:** answer, be, have, want, get · **To what, where:** things · **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 (tribe), 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:pg66596:16:58
# text = She answered: “No, there are some things that I have here that I want to get.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | tribe |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | some things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | tribe | some things |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | tribe |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **get** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | tribe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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