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description: You would all better go over to that hill, and sit down there and wait for me to decide.” Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\], sentence 117

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You would all better go over to that hill, and sit down there and wait for me to decide.”

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** go over, sit down, wait, decide

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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:pg66596:7:117
# text = You would all better go over to that hill, and sit down there and wait for me to decide.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go over** | would | You |  |  |  |  | to that hill; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | present |  |  |  | there |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **decide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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