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description: So the people will always have something to eat with their buffalo meat, and something to depend on if the buffalo fail.” Who acts: people. 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 e
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 41

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So the people will always have something to eat with their buffalo meat, and something to depend on if the buffalo fail.”

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** have, eat, depend · **To what, where:** something

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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), 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:pg66596:8:41
# text = So the people will always have something to eat with their buffalo meat, and something to depend on if the buffalo fail.”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | future | the people | something |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  | with people's buffalo meat; something *conj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **depend** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  | on the buffalo fail | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on fail=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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