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title: Next season he gave all the people seed to plant, and after that the… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next season he gave all the people seed to plant, and after that they always had these things. Who acts: rest, seed. 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 72

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Next season he gave all the people seed to plant, and after that they always had these things.

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**Who acts:** rest, seed · **What happens:** give, plant, have · **To what, where:** people seed, 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 (rest, seed), 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:pg66596:8:72
# text = Next season he gave all the people seed to plant, and after that they always had these things.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	compound	_	_
8	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	plant	plant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	17	advmod	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | rest | all people seed |  |  | season |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme |
| 2 | **plant** | to-infinitive | rest *not said here* | all people seed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | seed | this things |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |

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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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