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title: But at last everything was quiet in the camp, and in the chief’s lod… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: But at last everything was quiet in the camp, and in the chief’s lodge the fire of small willows had died down, and the deep breathing of the occupants showed that they were asleep. Who acts: fire, deep breathing, people, occupants. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stori
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 77

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But at last everything was quiet in the camp, and in the chief’s lodge the fire of small willows had died down, and the deep breathing of the occupants showed that they were asleep.

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**Who acts:** fire, deep breathing, people, occupants · **What happens:** be, die down, show, fire, breathe · **To what, where:** everything, small willows · **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 (fire, deep breathing, people, occupants), 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:pg66596:18:77
# text = But at last everything was quiet in the camp, and in the chief’s lodge the fire of small willows had died down, and the deep breathing of the occupants showed that they were asleep.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	willows	willow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
24	down	down	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	breathing	breathing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	occupants	occupant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
33	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | everything |  | in the camp; quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **die down** | past · perfect | the fire of small willows |  |  |  |  | in the chief's lodge | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in lodge=Attribute |
| 3 | **show** | past | the deep breathing of the occupants |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fire** |  |  | small willows |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **breathe** |  | the occupants |  |  |  |  |  | nom breathing «act 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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