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description: Here you are just home from a long journey, and yet you would start right out again, without thinking about me at all.” Who acts: you. 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 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 15

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Here you are just home from a long journey, and yet you would start right out again, without thinking about me at all.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, start, think · **To what, where:** long journey, all

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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 (you), 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:pg66596:18:15
# text = Here you are just home from a long journey, and yet you would start right out again, without thinking about me at all.”
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	right	right	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	about	about	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  | a long journey; here |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **start** | would | you |  |  |  | yet; again | out *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | all |  | about me | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about i=Topic |

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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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