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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Stories and the Story-tellers, sentence 8

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In their true form they are full of human nature, full of unconscious suggestion as to how the primitive mind worked, and full also of hints as to the customs and life of the people in the old days.

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**Who acts:** stories, primitive mind · **What happens:** be, work, form · **To what, where:** true form

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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 (stories, primitive mind), 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:pg66596:2:8
# text = In their true form they are full of human nature, full of unconscious suggestion as to how the primitive mind worked, and full also of hints as to the customs and life of the people in the old days.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	unconscious	unconscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	hints	hint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | stories *= story* |  |  | stories's true form |  | of human nature; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | past | the primitive mind |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** |  | stories *= story* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of hints; as the customs and life of the people in the old days | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** |  | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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