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title: All around the hole she dug the earth away so as to make it large en… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: All around the hole she dug the earth away so as to make it large enough for her body to pass through. Who acts: wife, body. 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 every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 26

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All around the hole she dug the earth away so as to make it large enough for her body to pass through.

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**Who acts:** wife, body · **What happens:** dig away, make, pass through · **To what, where:** earth, hole

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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 (wife, body), 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:pg66596:9:26
# text = All around the hole she dug the earth away so as to make it large enough for her body to pass through.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	through	through	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig away** | past | wife | the earth |  | the hole |  | all, away *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent earth=Theme around hole=Location |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | earth |  |  |  | large *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **pass through** | to-infinitive | wife's body |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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