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title: The salmon that each year come to the rivers to spawn, the great sho… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The salmon that each year come to the rivers to spawn, the great shoals of little herrings that visit the beach, the halibut that lie at the bottom far at sea, the seals, the sea-lions, the porpoises, and the whales, all provide something towards the tribe’s support. Who acts: salmon, little herring
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Bluejay Stories, sentence 4

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The salmon that each year come to the rivers to spawn, the great shoals of little herrings that visit the beach, the halibut that lie at the bottom far at sea, the seals, the sea-lions, the porpoises, and the whales, all provide something towards the tribe’s support.

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**Who acts:** salmon, little herrings, halibut, whales, tribe · **What happens:** come, spawn, visit, lie, provide, support · **To what, where:** rivers, beach, bottom, something, salmon

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Bluejay Stories. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon, little herrings, halibut, whales), 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:pg66596:3:4
# text = The salmon that each year come to the rivers to spawn, the great shoals of little herrings that visit the beach, the halibut that lie at the bottom far at sea, the seals, the sea-lions, the porpoises, and the whales, all provide something towards the tribe’s support.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	spawn	spawn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shoals	shoal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	herrings	herring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	visit	visit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	halibut	halibut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	porpoises	porpoise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
50	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	advmod	_	_
51	provide	provide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
52	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	51	obj	_	_
53	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’s	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	support	support	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | infinitive | the salmon and the great shoals of little herrings and the halibut and the seals and the sea lions and the porpoises |  |  | the rivers |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **spawn** | to-infinitive | the salmon and the great shoals of little herrings and the halibut and the seals and the sea lions and the porpoises *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **visit** | present | little herrings and the halibut and the seals and the sea lions and the porpoises | the beach |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **lie** | present | the halibut |  |  | the bottom |  | far *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location |
| 5 | **provide** | present | the whales | something |  |  |  | towards the tribe's support | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition something=Theme |
| 7 | **support** |  | the tribe |  |  |  |  |  | nom support «act 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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