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title: It was a warm, soft nest, and he was already almost asleep when some… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a warm, soft nest, and he was already almost asleep when some one called his name. Who acts: dam, grass. 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 of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 39

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It was a warm, soft nest, and he was already almost asleep when some one called his name.

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**Who acts:** dam, grass · **What happens:** be, call, name · **To what, where:** warm soft nest, one · **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 (dam, grass), 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:pg66596:17:39
# text = It was a warm, soft nest, and he was already almost asleep when some one called his name.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	already	already	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | dam | a warm soft nest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | grass | a warm soft nest *not said here* |  |  |  | almost, asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle · passive |  | some one |  |  |  | grass's name *obj* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme name=Result |
| 4 | **name** |  | grass |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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