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title: One hot night in summer two girls climbed up on an arbor in front of… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: One hot night in summer two girls climbed up on an arbor in front of an earth lodge to sleep where it was cool. Who acts: two girls, lodge. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 1

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One hot night in summer two girls climbed up on an arbor in front of an earth lodge to sleep where it was cool.

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**Who acts:** two girls, lodge · **What happens:** climb up, sleep, be · **To what, where:** arbor

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two girls, lodge), 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:pg66596:9:1
# text = One hot night in summer two girls climbed up on an arbor in front of an earth lodge to sleep where it was cool.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	arbor	arbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | past | two girls |  |  | a arbor in front of a earth lodge | night |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arbor=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | two girls *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | lodge |  |  |  |  | cool *property* | tree rules |

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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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