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title: After that they can eat a part of what grows, but they must always s… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: After that they can eat a part of what grows, but they must always save some for seed. Who acts: people, part. 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 40

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After that they can eat a part of what grows, but they must always save some for seed.

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**Who acts:** people, part · **What happens:** eat, grow, save · **To what, where:** part, some

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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, part), 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:pg66596:8:40
# text = After that they can eat a part of what grows, but they must always save some for seed.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | can | people | a part |  |  | after that |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a part |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **save** | must | people | some |  |  |  | for seed; always *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent some=Theme for seed=Source |

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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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