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title: The months passed, and one morning the water in the whirling pool wa… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The months passed, and one morning the water in the whirling pool was seen to be a little muddy. Who acts: months. 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 94

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The months passed, and one morning the water in the whirling pool was seen to be a little muddy.

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**Who acts:** months · **What happens:** pass, see, be · **To what, where:** water

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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 (months), 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:pg66596:17:94
# text = The months passed, and one morning the water in the whirling pool was seen to be a little muddy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	whirling	whirling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the months |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | the water in the whirling pool |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; muddy *property* | tree rules |

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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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