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title: At the sound of the shot all the Nez Percés rushed out of their lodg… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the sound of the shot all the Nez Percés rushed out of their lodges and up and down the stream to learn what had happened. Who acts: Nez Percés. 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
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Ragged Head, sentence 57

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At the sound of the shot all the Nez Percés rushed out of their lodges and up and down the stream to learn what had happened.

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**Who acts:** Nez Percés · **What happens:** rush out, learn, happen · **To what, where:** lodges, sound · **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, 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 (Nez Percés), 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:pg66596:14:57
# text = At the sound of the shot all the Nez Percés rushed out of their lodges and up and down the stream to learn what had happened.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Nez	Nez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Percés	Percés	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lodges	lodge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush out** | past | the Nez Percés | Piegans's lodges and the stream |  | the sound of the shot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent lodge=Theme at sound=Trajectory |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | the Nez Percés *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | 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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