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description: The pool in the centre of the lodge was never still; the current coming in from the door whirled slowly around and around. Who acts: pool, coming. 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 pragma
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 79

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The pool in the centre of the lodge was never still; the current coming in from the door whirled slowly around and around.

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**Who acts:** pool, coming · **What happens:** not be, come in, whirl · **To what, where:** door

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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 (pool, coming), 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:pg66596:17:79
# text = The pool in the centre of the lodge was never still; the current coming in from the door whirled slowly around and around.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	still	still	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	csubj	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	whirled	whirl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	around	around	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	around	around	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the pool in the centre of the lodge |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come in** | gerund |  |  |  | the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from door=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **whirl** | past | coming |  |  |  |  | around, slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: 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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