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title: Then, lifting the beaver up, it changed into the stick again, and, p… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, lifting the beaver up, it changed into the stick again, and, putting it safely in his bosom, he journeyed on. Who acts: weight, brother. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 143

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Then, lifting the beaver up, it changed into the stick again, and, putting it safely in his bosom, he journeyed on.

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**Who acts:** weight, brother · **What happens:** lift up, change, put, journey, bosom · **To what, where:** beaver, stick, weight, bosom

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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 (weight, brother), 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:pg66596:17:143
# text = Then, lifting the beaver up, it changed into the stick again, and, putting it safely in his bosom, he journeyed on.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beaver	beaver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	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	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	journeyed	journey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | gerund | weight *not said here* | the beaver |  |  | then |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaver=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | past | weight |  |  |  | again | into the stick *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into stick=Result |
| 3 | **put** | gerund | weight *not said here* | weight |  | brother's bosom |  | safely *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bosom=Destination |
| 4 | **journey** | past | brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bosom** |  | brother |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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