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title: Soon after this the Star Boy said to his playmate: “Brother, let us… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after this the Star Boy said to his playmate: “Brother, let us go over to that hill where the snakes live. Who acts: Star Boy, Brother, us, snakes. 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 prag
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 95

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Soon after this the Star Boy said to his playmate: “Brother, let us go over to that hill where the snakes live.

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**Who acts:** Star Boy, Brother, us, snakes · **What happens:** say, let, go over, live · **To what, where:** playmate, 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 (Star Boy, Brother, us, snakes), 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:pg66596:9:95
# text = Soon after this the Star Boy said to his playmate: “Brother, let us go over to that hill where the snakes live.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	playmate	playmate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Star Boy |  | boy's playmate |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to playmate=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | Brother | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go over** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to that hill; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the snakes |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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