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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 34

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Your people are very hungry now because they can find no buffalo, but I am going to give you something on which you can live, even when the buffalo fail.”

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**Who acts:** people, I, you · **What happens:** be, find, go, give, live · **To what, where:** buffalo, something, you

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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 (people, I, 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:pg66596:8:34
# text = Your people are very hungry now because they can find no buffalo, but I am going to give you something on which you can live, even when the buffalo fail.”
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	iobj	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	32	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Your people |  |  |  | now | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | can | people | no buffalo |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | something | you |  |  | the buffalo fail *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | can | you |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Location |

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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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