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title: New Robe’s parents had died when he was a little child, and he was b… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: New Robe’s parents had died when he was a little child, and he was brought up by an old woman who also died before he grew up to be a man. Who acts: parents, Robe, old woman. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick, with its de
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 2

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New Robe’s parents had died when he was a little child, and he was brought up by an old woman who also died before he grew up to be a man.

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**Who acts:** parents, Robe, old woman · **What happens:** die, be, bring up, grow up · **To what, where:** little child, Robe, man

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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 (parents, Robe, old woman), 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:pg66596:17:2
# text = New Robe’s parents had died when he was a little child, and he was brought up by an old woman who also died before he grew up to be a man.
1	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Robe	Robe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past · perfect | New Robe's parents |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Robe | a little child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring up** | past · passive | a old woman | Robe |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 4 | **die** | past | a old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **grow up** | past | Robe |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Robe *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | 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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