--- title: When either of the two went to war, he always had a big party to fol… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: When either of the two went to war, he always had a big party to follow him. Who acts: either, Shield. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/7/) [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/) / 7 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 7 When either of the two went to war, he always had a big party to follow him. **Who acts:** either, Shield · **What happens:** go, have, follow · **To what, where:** war, big party, Shield 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 (either, Shield), 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:pg66596:16:7 # text = When either of the two went to war, he always had a big party to follow him. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nmod _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 12 advmod _ _ 12 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | either of the two | | | war | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **have** | past | Shield | a big party | | | | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Patient | | 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Shield *not said here* | Shield | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/8/) - ↑ back to [Shield Quiver’s Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/)