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title: Then they turned northeast, and after four nights on the wide prairi… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they turned northeast, and after four nights on the wide prairie saw before them another valley. Who acts: lodges. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 24

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Then they turned northeast, and after four nights on the wide prairie saw before them another valley.

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**Who acts:** lodges · **What happens:** turn · **To what, where:** northeast

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lodges), 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:pg66596:12:24
# text = Then they turned northeast, and after four nights on the wide prairie saw before them another valley.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	northeast	northeast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	saw	saw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | lodges *= lodge* | northeast |  |  | before dangers *= danger*; then; night | another valley *obj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent northeast=Theme valley=Result |

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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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