--- title: I have been sent, and am here on purpose to get you and take you wit… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: I have been sent, and am here on purpose to get you and take you with me.” A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Corn, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/8/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/) / [The First Corn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/8/) / 17 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 17 I have been sent, and am here on purpose to get you and take you with me.” **What happens:** send, be, get, take · **To what, where:** I, purpose, you This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Corn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg66596:8:17 # text = I have been sent, and am here on purpose to get you and take you with me.” 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 9 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | present · perfect · passive | | I | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | purpose | | here *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | | | you | | | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/8/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/8/18/) - ↑ back to [The First Corn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/8/)