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title: In a moment his hands, feet, and head were severed, and women were p… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment his hands, feet, and head were severed, and women were pushing and kicking and pounding the mutilated parts here and there, singing as they did so the shrill song of revenge. Who acts: women, parts, revenge. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 43

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In a moment his hands, feet, and head were severed, and women were pushing and kicking and pounding the mutilated parts here and there, singing as they did so the shrill song of revenge.

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**Who acts:** women, parts, revenge · **What happens:** sever, push, kick, pound, mutilate, sing · **To what, where:** mutilated parts, shrill song · **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 (women, parts, revenge), 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:pg66596:18:43
# text = In a moment his hands, feet, and head were severed, and women were pushing and kicking and pounding the mutilated parts here and there, singing as they did so the shrill song of revenge.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	severed	sever	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pounding	pound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	mutilated	mutilate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sever** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | moment | head *compound* | vn separate-23.1 «NP V» |
| 2 | **push** | past · progressive | women |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **kick** | gerund | women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pound** | gerund | women *not said here* | the mutilated parts |  | here; there |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Product |
| 5 | **mutilate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **do** | past | parts *= part* | the shrill song of revenge |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality |
| 8 | **sing** |  | revenge |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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