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title: Sometimes he would lose everything that he had, and would even lose… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes he would lose everything that he had, and would even lose things belonging to his father. Who acts: man. 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.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 3

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Sometimes he would lose everything that he had, and would even lose things belonging to his father.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** lose, have, belong · **To what, where:** everything, things

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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: who acts (man), 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:pg66596:8:3
# text = Sometimes he would lose everything that he had, and would even lose things belonging to his father.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | would | man | everything |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lose** | would | man *not said here* | things |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **belong** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to man's father | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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