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title: When the people are all asleep, and the evening fire has died out, l… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the people are all asleep, and the evening fire has died out, leave your bed as quietly as you can, pick up the pouch, and hurry away in the direction from which you came.” Who acts: people, evening fire, you. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 72

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When the people are all asleep, and the evening fire has died out, leave your bed as quietly as you can, pick up the pouch, and hurry away in the direction from which you came.”

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**Who acts:** people, evening fire, you · **What happens:** be, die out, leave, pick up, hurry away, come · **To what, where:** bed, pouch, direction

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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 (people, evening fire, 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:pg66596:18:72
# text = When the people are all asleep, and the evening fire has died out, leave your bed as quietly as you can, pick up the pouch, and hurry away in the direction from which you came.”
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	hurry	hurry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	away	away	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the people |  |  |  |  | all, asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die out** | present · perfect | the evening fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | your bed |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
| 4 | **pick up** | infinitive |  | the pouch |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pouch=Topic |
| 5 | **hurry away** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  | the direction |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory |
| 6 | **come** | past | you |  |  | the direction |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |

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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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