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title: They hung on the walls and from the roof, enclosed in beautiful pouc… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: They hung on the walls and from the roof, enclosed in beautiful pouches and sacks of strange shape. Who acts: 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 77

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They hung on the walls and from the roof, enclosed in beautiful pouches and sacks of strange shape.

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**Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** hang, enclose · **To what, where:** walls, beautiful pouches

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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 (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:pg66596:17:77
# text = They hung on the walls and from the roof, enclosed in beautiful pouches and sacks of strange shape.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pouches	pouch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | stranger |  |  | the walls and the roof |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |
| 2 | **enclose** | participle |  | the walls and the roof *not said here* |  | beautiful pouches and sacks of strange shape |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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