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title: In the evening New Robe met this girl, Mas-tah ki—Raven Woman—as she… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening New Robe met this girl, Mas-tah ki—Raven Woman—as she was coming from the river with a skin of water. Who acts: New Robe, woman. 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 pragmatic
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 22

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In the evening New Robe met this girl, Mas-tah ki—Raven Woman—as she was coming from the river with a skin of water.

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**Who acts:** New Robe, woman · **What happens:** meet, come · **To what, where:** girl, river

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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 (New Robe, 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:pg66596:17:22
# text = In the evening New Robe met this girl, Mas-tah ki—Raven Woman—as she was coming from the river with a skin of water.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Robe	Robe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Mas	Mas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tah	tah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ki	ki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Raven	raven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | New Robe | this girl and Mas tah ki |  |  | evening | Raven Woman *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past · progressive | woman |  |  | the river |  | with a skin of water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from river=Initial\_Location |

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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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