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title: The young men scouted far and near over the prairie, but could find… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The young men scouted far and near over the prairie, but could find no buffalo. Who acts: young men. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 130

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The young men scouted far and near over the prairie, but could find no buffalo.

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**Who acts:** young men · **What happens:** scout, find · **To what, where:** young men, prairie, buffalo

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men), 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:pg66596:15:130
# text = The young men scouted far and near over the prairie, but could find no buffalo.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
4	scouted	scout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scout** | participle |  | the young men *not said here* |  | the prairie |  | far *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over prairie=Location |
| 2 | **find** | could | the young men | no buffalo |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=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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