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title: The next day after he got back, the young man sent out an old man to… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day after he got back, the young man sent out an old man to go through the camp and call all the people to come to his father’s lodge. Who acts: end, young man. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Corn, with its dependenc
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Corn, sentence 52

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The next day after he got back, the young man sent out an old man to go through the camp and call all the people to come to his father’s lodge.

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**Who acts:** end, young man · **What happens:** get back, send out, go, call, come · **To what, where:** next day, old man, camp, people, lodge · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (end, young 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:pg66596:8:52
# text = The next day after he got back, the young man sent out an old man to go through the camp and call all the people to come to his father’s lodge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get back** | past | end | the next day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer day=Stimulus |
| 2 | **send out** | participle | the young man | a old man |  |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  |  | the camp |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through camp=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **call** | infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  | all people |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  |  | man's father's lodge |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial\_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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