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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 143

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Su-yé-sai-pi cried—cried at parting with her faithful guide, and because at sight of her mother all her trials and sufferings came back to her mind.

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**Who acts:** Su, mother · **What happens:** cry, come back, sight, try, mind · **To what, where:** parting, sight, mother

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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 (Su, mother), 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:pg66596:18:143
# text = Su-yé-sai-pi cried—cried at parting with her faithful guide, and because at sight of her mother all her trials and sufferings came back to her mind.
1	Su	Su	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	yé	yé	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	sai	sai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	pi	pi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	trials	trial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Su |  |  |  |  | sai pi *nsubj* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Su *not said here* |  |  | parting |  | with pi's faithful guide | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at parting=Location |
| 3 | **come back** | past | Su *not said here* |  |  | sight of pi's mother  mother's trials and sufferings |  | to mother's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mind=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | pi's mother  mother's trials and sufferings |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **try** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom trial «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **mind** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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