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title: From their camp on the plains a party of Piegans set out on the war-… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: From their camp on the plains a party of Piegans set out on the war-path to cross the mountains and take horses from their enemies on the other side—Snakes, Flat Heads, or Nez Percés. Who acts: party. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Rag
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 31

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From their camp on the plains a party of Piegans set out on the war-path to cross the mountains and take horses from their enemies on the other side—Snakes, Flat Heads, or Nez Percés.

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**Who acts:** party · **What happens:** set out, cross, take · **To what, where:** camp, mountains, horses, enemies

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (party), 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:pg66596:14:31
# text = From their camp on the plains a party of Piegans set out on the war-path to cross the mountains and take horses from their enemies on the other side—Snakes, Flat Heads, or Nez Percés.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Piegans	Piegan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	Flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	Nez	Nez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	Percés	Percés	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | a party of Piegans |  |  | streams's camp |  | on the plains; on the war path | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from camp=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | a party of Piegans *not said here* | the mountains |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | present | a party of Piegans *not said here* | horses |  | streams's enemies |  | on the other side and Snakes and Flat Heads | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme on side=Destination |

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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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