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title: He looked about on the ground for a stone just the size of the hole,… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked about on the ground for a stone just the size of the hole, and dropped it through, and it fell on the woman’s head and killed her, but by his power the Star Man took care of the little child so that when it fell to the ground it was not hurt. Who acts: husband, hole, ground, little child. 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 36

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He looked about on the ground for a stone just the size of the hole, and dropped it through, and it fell on the woman’s head and killed her, but by his power the Star Man took care of the little child so that when it fell to the ground it was not hurt.

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**Who acts:** husband, hole, ground, little child · **What happens:** look, drop, fall, kill, take, not hurt · **To what, where:** ground, hole, head, woman, care

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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 (husband, hole, ground, little child), 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:pg66596:9:36
# text = He looked about on the ground for a stone just the size of the hole, and dropped it through, and it fell on the woman’s head and killed her, but by his power the Star Man took care of the little child so that when it fell to the ground it was not hurt.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	through	through	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
41	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
47	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	51	mark	_	_
48	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	47	fixed	_	_
49	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux:pass	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | husband |  |  | the ground |  | for a stone  the size of the hole; about *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ground=Location for stone=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | past |  | hole |  |  |  | through *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | hole |  |  | the woman's head |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 4 | **kill** | past | hole *not said here* | woman |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **take** | past | husband *not said here* | care of the little child |  |  |  | by husband's power | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 6 | **fall** | past | hole |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **hurt** | past · passive | the ground *not said here* | hole |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **care** |  | the little child |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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