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A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Not --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/15/137/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/) / [Nothing Child](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/15/) / 137 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 137 Here he gathered up buffalo chips, and made great piles of them in a row, and when he had finished, he went back some way, and then came running and shouting towards the piles of chips. **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** gather up, make, finish, go back, come, run · **To what, where:** buffalo chips, great piles, row, way 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 (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:15:137 # text = Here he gathered up buffalo chips, and made great piles of them in a row, and when he had finished, he went back some way, and then came running and shouting towards the piles of chips. 1 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 buffalo buffalo NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 piles pile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 det _ _ 28 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 shouting shout VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 conj _ _ 36 towards towards ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 piles pile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gather up** | past | man | buffalo chips | | here | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chip=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | | great piles of piles | | a row | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pile=Product | | 3 | **finish** | past · perfect | man | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **go back** | past | man | some way | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **come** | past | man *not said here* | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **run** | gerund | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | man *not said here* | | | | | towards the piles of chips | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards pile=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/15/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/15/138/) - ↑ back to [Nothing Child](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/15/)