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title: After their marriage the young couple continued to live in the Piega… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: After their marriage the young couple continued to live in the Piegan camp, for Front Wolf had many friends there of his own age, who begged him to remain with them. Who acts: young couple, Front Wolf, own age, camps. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George B
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 6

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After their marriage the young couple continued to live in the Piegan camp, for Front Wolf had many friends there of his own age, who begged him to remain with them.

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**Who acts:** young couple, Front Wolf, own age, camps · **What happens:** continue, live, have, beg, remain, marry · **To what, where:** Piegan camp, many friends, Wolf

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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 (young couple, Front Wolf, own age, camps), 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:pg66596:18:6
# text = After their marriage the young couple continued to live in the Piegan camp, for Front Wolf had many friends there of his own age, who begged him to remain with them.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Piegan	Piegan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	Front	Front	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the young couple |  |  |  | after camps's marriage |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | the young couple *not said here* |  |  | the Piegan camp |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in camp=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | Front Wolf | many friends of Wolf's own age |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Wolf's own age |  | Wolf |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Wolf's own age *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with camps *= camp* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **marry** |  | camps *= camp* |  |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «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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