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description: In transcribing stories such as these, care must be used to take down just what the narrator says. Who acts: narrator. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Stories and the Story-tellers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Stories and the Story-tellers, sentence 6

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In transcribing stories such as these, care must be used to take down just what the narrator says.

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**Who acts:** narrator · **What happens:** transcribe, use, take down, say · **To what, where:** stories, care · **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, The Stories and the Story-tellers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (narrator), 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:pg66596:2:6
# text = In transcribing stories such as these, care must be used to take down just what the narrator says.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	transcribing	transcribe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transcribe** | gerund |  | stories |  |  |  | such these | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | must · passive |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **take down** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the narrator |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

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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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