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title: Now let me explain to you,” and the old man began to point out the d… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now let me explain to you,” and the old man began to point out the different medicines and to tell what they were, explaining the wonderful and mysterious power of each. Who acts: you, me, old man, medicines. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinn
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 117

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Now let me explain to you,” and the old man began to point out the different medicines and to tell what they were, explaining the wonderful and mysterious power of each.

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**Who acts:** you, me, old man, medicines · **What happens:** let, explain, begin, point out, tell · **To what, where:** me, you, different medicines, wonderful power · **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, The Beaver Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, old man, medicines), 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:pg66596:17:117
# text = Now let me explain to you,” and the old man began to point out the different medicines and to tell what they were, explaining the wonderful and mysterious power of each.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | infinitive | me *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient |
| 3 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **point out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | the different medicines |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · progressive | medicines *= medicine* | the wonderful power of each |  |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |

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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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