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title: She wished that they would not delay; she wished to have the dreadfu… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: She wished that they would not delay; she wished to have the dreadful ordeal over with, so that her shadow might overtake her husband’s as it travelled along on the road to the Sandhills—home of the departed Blackfeet. Who acts: woman, executioners, shadow. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Sting
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 55

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She wished that they would not delay; she wished to have the dreadful ordeal over with, so that her shadow might overtake her husband’s as it travelled along on the road to the Sandhills—home of the departed Blackfeet.

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**Who acts:** woman, executioners, shadow · **What happens:** wish, not delay, have, overtake, travel, depart · **To what, where:** dreadful ordeal, road

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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 (woman, executioners, shadow), 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:pg66596:18:55
# text = She wished that they would not delay; she wished to have the dreadful ordeal over with, so that her shadow might overtake her husband’s as it travelled along on the road to the Sandhills—home of the departed Blackfeet.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	delay	delay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ordeal	ordeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	along	along	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Sandhills	Sandhills	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	Blackfeet	Blackfeet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **not** **delay** | would | executioners *= executioner* |  |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wish** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | the dreadful ordeal |  |  |  | over *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ordeal=Patient |
| 5 | **overtake** | might | woman's shadow |  |  |  |  | home *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **travel** | past | shadow |  |  | the road to the Sandhills |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Trajectory |
| 7 | **depart** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **shadow** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state 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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