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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 123

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Here by the river were plenty of berries and some roots that are often eaten—good to fill the belly, but not strength-making food.

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**What happens:** be, eat, fill, not make · **To what, where:** berries, belly, food

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66596:18:123
# text = Here by the river were plenty of berries and some roots that are often eaten—good to fill the belly, but not strength-making food.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
6	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
28	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by the river; here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | present · passive |  | berries and some roots |  |  |  | often *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **fill** | to-infinitive |  | the belly |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belly=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **make** | gerund |  | food |  |  |  | strength *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Product |

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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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