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title: When the stones were hot the Bear took his knife and cut the soles f… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the stones were hot the Bear took his knife and cut the soles from his feet, and cut a big piece of meat out of his thigh. Who acts: stones, hot Bear. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay, the Imitator, with its dependency tree 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay, the Imitator, sentence 81

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When the stones were hot the Bear took his knife and cut the soles from his feet, and cut a big piece of meat out of his thigh.

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**Who acts:** stones, hot Bear · **What happens:** be, take, cut · **To what, where:** knife, soles, feet, big piece, thigh

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay, the Imitator. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stones, hot Bear), 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:pg66596:5:81
# text = When the stones were hot the Bear took his knife and cut the soles from his feet, and cut a big piece of meat out of his thigh.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Bear	Bear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the stones |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | the hot Bear | Bear's knife |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 3 | **cut** | past | the hot Bear *not said here* | the soles |  | Bear's feet |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset sole=Product from foot=Material |
| 4 | **cut** | past |  | a big piece of meat |  | Bear's thigh |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset piece=Product |

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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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