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title: Shield Quiver and the Snake wrestled and tugged backward and forward… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shield Quiver and the Snake wrestled and tugged backward and forward to see who should get the lance. Who acts: 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.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 77

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Shield Quiver and the Snake wrestled and tugged backward and forward to see who should get the lance.

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**Who acts:** Shield · **What happens:** wrestle, tug, see, get · **To what, where:** lance · **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), 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:pg66596:16:77
# text = Shield Quiver and the Snake wrestled and tugged backward and forward to see who should get the lance.
1	Shield	Shield	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Quiver	Quiver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	wrestled	wrestle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tugged	tug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrestle** | past | Shield and the Snake |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tug** | past | Shield and the Snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | backward *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | Shield and the Snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **get** | should |  | the lance |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lance=Stimulus |

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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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