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title: The stops for rest were more frequent now, and the coyote showed tha… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The stops for rest were more frequent now, and the coyote showed that he was beginning to feel uneasy. Who acts: The, rest, coyote. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 125

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The stops for rest were more frequent now, and the coyote showed that he was beginning to feel uneasy.

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**Who acts:** The, rest, coyote · **What happens:** stop, be, show, begin, feel · **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, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (The, rest, coyote), 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:pg66596:18:125
# text = The stops for rest were more frequent now, and the coyote showed that he was beginning to feel uneasy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | The |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | rest |  |  |  | now | frequent *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | past | the coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **begin** | past · progressive | coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **feel** | to-infinitive | coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  | uneasy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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