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title: But there are many secret and wonderful things that we have learned… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: But there are many secret and wonderful things that we have learned through much prayer and through the search for different medicines. Who acts: many secret things, we. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Beaver Stick, with its depende
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 73

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But there are many secret and wonderful things that we have learned through much prayer and through the search for different medicines.

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**Who acts:** many secret things, we · **What happens:** be, learn · **To what, where:** many secret things, much prayer

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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 (many secret things, we), 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:pg66596:17:73
# text = But there are many secret and wonderful things that we have learned through much prayer and through the search for different medicines.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | many secret things |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | present · perfect | we | many secret things |  | much prayer and the search for different medicines |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |

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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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