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title: In the stories told by this race of seafarers, the incidents have to… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the stories told by this race of seafarers, the incidents have to do with the common events of their lives, and the scenes are commonly laid on the water or at the water’s edge. Who acts: incidents, seafarers. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird G
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Bluejay Stories, sentence 6

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In the stories told by this race of seafarers, the incidents have to do with the common events of their lives, and the scenes are commonly laid on the water or at the water’s edge.

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**Who acts:** incidents, seafarers · **What happens:** tell, have, do, lay, race · **To what, where:** stories, scenes, water · **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 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 (incidents, seafarers), 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:pg66596:3:6
# text = In the stories told by this race of seafarers, the incidents have to do with the common events of their lives, and the scenes are commonly laid on the water or at the water’s edge.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	seafarers	seafarer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the stories *not said here* |  |  |  | by this race of seafarers | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | the incidents |  |  | the stories |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive | the incidents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the common events of incidents's lives | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay** | present · passive |  | the scenes |  | the water or the water's edge |  | commonly *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on water=Destination |
| 5 | **race** |  | seafarers |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event 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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