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title: They carried the mussels up from the beach and ate mussels all night. — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: They carried the mussels up from the beach and ate mussels all night. Who acts: women. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 76

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They carried the mussels up from the beach and ate mussels all night.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** carry up, eat · **To what, where:** mussels, beach

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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:pg66596:4:76
# text = They carried the mussels up from the beach and ate mussels all night.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mussels	mussel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	mussels	mussel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry up** | past | women *= woman* | the mussels |  | the beach |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent mussel=Theme from beach=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **eat** | past | women *= woman* *not said here* | mussels |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mussel=Patient |

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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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