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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 144

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They placed her on the travois and drew her to camp, where all the people came to sympathize with her, bringing something from their store of choice food as presents.

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**Who acts:** sufferings, people · **What happens:** place, draw, camp, come, sympathize, bring · **To what, where:** mother, travois, something, store

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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 (sufferings, people), 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:pg66596:18:144
# text = They placed her on the travois and drew her to camp, where all the people came to sympathize with her, bringing something from their store of choice food as presents.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	travois	travois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	camp	camp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	sympathize	sympathize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | sufferings *= suffering* | mother |  | the travois |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on travois=Destination |
| 2 | **draw** | past | sufferings *= suffering* *not said here* |  | mother |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **camp** | to-infinitive | sufferings *= suffering* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | all people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **sympathize** | to-infinitive | all people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with mother | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with she=Stimulus |
| 6 | **bring** | gerund | all people *not said here* | something |  | sufferings's store of choice food |  | as presents | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from store=Initial\_Location |

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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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