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title: To the branch of a tree in front of the lodge they had hung a rawhid… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: To the branch of a tree in front of the lodge they had hung a rawhide strap, such as women use for carrying wood, so as to make a swing for the girl. Who acts: lodge, women. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1],
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\], sentence 3

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To the branch of a tree in front of the lodge they had hung a rawhide strap, such as women use for carrying wood, so as to make a swing for the girl.

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**Who acts:** lodge, women · **What happens:** hang, use, carry, make · **To what, where:** boys, rawhide strap, wood, swing

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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 (lodge, 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:pg66596:7:3
# text = To the branch of a tree in front of the lodge they had hung a rawhide strap, such as women use for carrying wood, so as to make a swing for the girl.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	rawhide	rawhide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · perfect · passive | the lodge *not said here* | boys *= boy* |  |  |  | a rawhide strap *obj* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient strap=Result |
| 2 | **use** | present | women | a rawhide strap *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strap=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | women *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a swing |  |  |  | to the branch of a tree in front of the lodge; for the girl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent swing=Material for girl=Beneficiary |

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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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