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title: Then he jumped back and shook off his wife, and rushed at the Snake… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he jumped back and shook off his wife, and rushed at the Snake and thrust the lance into his breast, and so killed him with his own 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 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 79

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Then he jumped back and shook off his wife, and rushed at the Snake and thrust the lance into his breast, and so killed him with his own lance.

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**Who acts:** Shield · **What happens:** jump back, shake off, rush, kill · **To what, where:** wife, breast, Shield

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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:pg66596:16:79
# text = Then he jumped back and shook off his wife, and rushed at the Snake and thrust the lance into his breast, and so killed him with his own lance.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump back** | past | Shield |  |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shake off** | past | Shield *not said here* | Shield's wife |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wife=Patient |
| 3 | **rush** | participle | Shield *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into Shield's breast *result*; at the Snake and thrust and the lance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into breast=Result |
| 4 | **kill** | past | Shield *not said here* | Shield |  |  |  | with Shield's own lance | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with lance=Instrument |

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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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