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description: Yet New Robe lived along contentedly enough, for he knew nothing better than all this. Who acts: New Robe, Robe. 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 8

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Yet New Robe lived along contentedly enough, for he knew nothing better than all this.

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**Who acts:** New Robe, Robe · **What happens:** live, know · **To what, where:** nothing

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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, Robe), 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:pg66596:17:8
# text = Yet New Robe lived along contentedly enough, for he knew nothing better than all this.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Robe	Robe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	contentedly	contentedly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	obj	_	_
13	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | New Robe |  |  |  |  | along, contentedly, enough *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past | Robe | nothing |  |  |  | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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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