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title: At last he came to a big log, thrown up on the beach—a big log with… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he came to a big log, thrown up on the beach—a big log with thick bark—and many people were at work peeling off that bark. Who acts: Bluejay, many people, work. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, with its
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts, sentence 105

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At last he came to a big log, thrown up on the beach—a big log with thick bark—and many people were at work peeling off that bark.

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**Who acts:** Bluejay, many people, work · **What happens:** come, throw up, be, peel off · **To what, where:** last, big log, beach, work, bark

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Bluejay Visits the Ghosts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bluejay, many people, work), 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:pg66596:6:105
# text = At last he came to a big log, thrown up on the beach—a big log with thick bark—and many people were at work peeling off that bark.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
29	peeling	peel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Bluejay |  |  | last |  | to a big log and a big log with thick bark | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to log=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **throw up** | participle |  | a big log and a big log with thick bark *not said here* |  | the beach |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on beach=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | many people |  |  | work |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **peel off** | gerund | work *not said here* | that bark |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Source |

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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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