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title: When the last of the buffalo had gone, a great hunter named Low Wolf… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the last of the buffalo had gone, a great hunter named Low Wolf thought that it was also time for him to move. Who acts: last, great hunter, hunter. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, with its dependency 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Thunder Maker and Cold Maker, sentence 6

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When the last of the buffalo had gone, a great hunter named Low Wolf thought that it was also time for him to move.

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**Who acts:** last, great hunter, hunter · **What happens:** go, name, think, be, move · **To what, where:** great hunter, time · **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, 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 (last, great hunter, hunter), 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:pg66596:12:6
# text = When the last of the buffalo had gone, a great hunter named Low Wolf thought that it was also time for him to move.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	Low	Low	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | the last of the buffalo |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a great hunter *not said here* |  |  |  | Low Wolf *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | a great hunter |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | hunter | time |  |  |  | for Wolf | tree rules |
| 5 | **move** | to-infinitive | a great hunter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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