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title: When he thought she had sat still too long, he would whine and paw a… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he thought she had sat still too long, he would whine and paw at her dress, and look away up the stream, urging her to go on. Who acts: coyote, plenty. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote, with its dependency tree 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 126

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When he thought she had sat still too long, he would whine and paw at her dress, and look away up the stream, urging her to go on.

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**Who acts:** coyote, plenty · **What happens:** think, sit, whine, look away, urge, go on · **To what, where:** plenty · **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 (coyote, plenty), 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:pg66596:18:126
# text = When he thought she had sat still too long, he would whine and paw at her dress, and look away up the stream, urging her to go on.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	whine	whine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	paw	paw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	urging	urge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
31	on	on	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | coyote |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past · perfect | plenty |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **whine** | would | coyote |  |  |  |  | at plenty's dress; paw *conj* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at dress=Stimulus |
| 4 | **look away** | infinitive | coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  | up the stream; away *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent up stream=Theme |
| 5 | **urge** | gerund | coyote *not said here* | plenty |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go on** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | coyote *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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