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title: The old man and the two sons went out to look about and inspect the… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man and the two sons went out to look about and inspect the dam, leaving New Robe and the old woman inside. Who acts: old man. 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 ever
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Beaver Stick, sentence 96

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The old man and the two sons went out to look about and inspect the dam, leaving New Robe and the old woman inside.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** go out, look, inspect, leave · **To what, where:** dam, New Robe

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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 (old man), 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:pg66596:17:96
# text = The old man and the two sons went out to look about and inspect the dam, leaving New Robe and the old woman inside.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	inspect	inspect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dam	dam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Robe	Robe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | the old man and the two sons |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | the old man and the two sons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **inspect** | infinitive | the old man and the two sons *not said here* | the dam |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | the old man and the two sons *not said here* | New Robe |  |  |  | the old woman *conj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=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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