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title: So here the party divided, going off by twos and threes to try to fi… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: So here the party divided, going off by twos and threes to try to find the camps of their enemies. Who acts: party. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Ragged Head, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 36

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So here the party divided, going off by twos and threes to try to find the camps of their enemies.

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**Who acts:** party · **What happens:** divide, go off, try, find · **To what, where:** camps

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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:pg66596:14:36
# text = So here the party divided, going off by twos and threes to try to find the camps of their enemies.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	twos	two	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	threes	three	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	camps	camp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past | the party |  |  | here |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **go off** | gerund | the party *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by twos and threes | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by two=Location |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | the party *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the party *not said here* | the camps of threes's enemies |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Topic |

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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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