--- title: When he had finished sweeping his house, he built a fire and heated… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: When he had finished sweeping his house, he built a fire and heated some stones and filled a basket-work kettle with water and put in it the salmon egg, and then the hot stones, and covered the kettle. Who acts: shore. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shore), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:5:32 # text = When he had finished sweeping his house, he built a fire and heated some stones and filled a basket-work kettle with water and put in it the salmon egg, and then the hot stones, and covered the kettle. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 5 sweeping sweep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 built build VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 heated heat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 salmon salmon NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 covered cover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 kettle kettle NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | shore | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **sweep** | gerund | shore *not said here* | shore's house | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | | 3 | **build** | past | shore | a fire | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | | 4 | **heat** | past | shore *not said here* | some stones | | | | the hot stones *obl* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | | 5 | **fill** | past | shore *not said here* | a work kettle | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent kettle=Patient with water=Instrument | | 6 | **put** | participle | shore *not said here* | the salmon egg | | house | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in it=Destination | | 7 | **cover** | past | shore *not said here* | the kettle | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kettle=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/33/) - ↑ back to [Bluejay, the Imitator](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/5/)