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description: And when they had arrived at camp the people came crowding around to hear all that had happened. Who acts: birds, people, that. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk, sentence 138

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And when they had arrived at camp the people came crowding around to hear all that had happened.

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**Who acts:** birds, people, that · **What happens:** arrive, come, crowd around, hear, happen · **To what, where:** camp · **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 Blindness of Pi-waṕ-ōk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, people, that), 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:pg66596:13:138
# text = And when they had arrived at camp the people came crowding around to hear all that had happened.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	crowding	crowd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	around	around	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past · perfect | birds *= bird* |  |  | camp |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **crowd around** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | around *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **happen** | past · perfect | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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