---
title: He kept calling to his wife: “Let go of me. — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: He kept calling to his wife: “Let go of me. Who acts: husband. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/73/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 73

# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 73

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He kept calling to his wife: “Let go of me.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** keep, call, let, go · **To what, where:** wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66596:16:73
# text = He kept calling to his wife: “Let go of me.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
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	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | husband |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund | husband *not said here* |  | husband's wife |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of i=Initial\_Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/72/)
- next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/74/)
- ↑ back to [Shield Quiver’s Wife](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/16/)