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title: One afternoon an old widow woman called her into a poor little lodge… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: One afternoon an old widow woman called her into a poor little lodge and said: “I have great pity for you, and will do what I can to help you. Who acts: old widow woman. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote, with its dep
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 68

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One afternoon an old widow woman called her into a poor little lodge and said: “I have great pity for you, and will do what I can to help you.

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**Who acts:** old widow woman · **What happens:** call, say, have, do, help · **To what, where:** Su, poor little lodge, great pity, you · **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 (old widow woman), 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:pg66596:18:68
# text = One afternoon an old widow woman called her into a poor little lodge and said: “I have great pity for you, and will do what I can to help you.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	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 | **call** | past | a old widow woman | Su |  | a poor little lodge | afternoon |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic into lodge=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a old widow woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | a old widow woman *= woman* | great pity |  |  |  | for you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | future | a old widow woman *= woman* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a old widow woman *= woman* *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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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