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title: New Robe followed, wondering why they should take that course. — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: New Robe followed, wondering why they should take that course. Who acts: New Robe, stranger. 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 50

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New Robe followed, wondering why they should take that course.

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**Who acts:** New Robe, stranger · **What happens:** follow, wonder, take · **To what, where:** course · **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 (New Robe, stranger), 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:pg66596:17:50
# text = New Robe followed, wondering why they should take that course.
1	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Robe	Robe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
6	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | New Robe |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | New Robe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **take** | should | stranger | that course |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |

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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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