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title: Soon after this, one day when they were out hunting little birds and… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after this, one day when they were out hunting little birds and had got away from the lodge, the Star Boy said, “Brother, let us go over to that place where grandmother told us not to go. Who acts: fathers, Star Boy, Brother, us. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Sto
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 80

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Soon after this, one day when they were out hunting little birds and had got away from the lodge, the Star Boy said, “Brother, let us go over to that place where grandmother told us not to go.

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**Who acts:** fathers, Star Boy, Brother, us, grandmother · **What happens:** hunt, get away, say, let, go over, tell · **To what, where:** little birds, us · **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 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 (fathers, Star Boy, Brother, us), 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:pg66596:9:80
# text = Soon after this, one day when they were out hunting little birds and had got away from the lodge, the Star Boy said, “Brother, let us go over to that place where grandmother told us not to go.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	over	over	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	39	advmod	_	_
38	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past · progressive | fathers *= father* | little birds |  |  | day | soon *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 2 | **get away** | past · perfect | fathers *= father* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Star Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brother | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **go over** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to that place; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | grandmother |  | us |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **go** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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