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title: Well, winter has come, and,” turning to New Robe, “now you cannot le… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, winter has come, and,” turning to New Robe, “now you cannot leave us until spring comes and melts the ice. Who acts: winter, you, spring. 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 pragmatic
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 89

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Well, winter has come, and,” turning to New Robe, “now you cannot leave us until spring comes and melts the ice.

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**Who acts:** winter, you, spring · **What happens:** come, turn, not leave, melt · **To what, where:** New Robe, us, ice · **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 (winter, you, spring), 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:pg66596:17:89
# text = Well, winter has come, and,” turning to New Robe, “now you cannot leave us until spring comes and melts the ice.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
10	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Robe	Robe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · perfect | winter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  | New Robe |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | can | you | us |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | spring |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **melt** | present | spring *not said here* | the ice |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ice=Result |

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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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