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title: He repeated this a third and a fourth time, and the fourth time, whe… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: He repeated this a third and a fourth time, and the fourth time, when he got near the piles, the chips turned into buffaloes and rushed off over the prairie, and Nothing Child ran them towards the camp and drove them over the cliff into the piś kun, so that once more the camp was supplied with meat.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 139

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He repeated this a third and a fourth time, and the fourth time, when he got near the piles, the chips turned into buffaloes and rushed off over the prairie, and Nothing Child ran them towards the camp and drove them over the cliff into the piś kun, so that once more the camp was supplied with meat.

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**Who acts:** man, chips, Nothing Child · **What happens:** repeat, get, turn, rush off, run, drive · **To what, where:** third, piles, buffaloes, prairie, chips, camp

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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 (man, chips, Nothing Child), 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:pg66596:15:139
# text = He repeated this a third and a fourth time, and the fourth time, when he got near the piles, the chips turned into buffaloes and rushed off over the prairie, and Nothing Child ran them towards the camp and drove them over the cliff into the piś kun, so that once more the camp was supplied with meat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	piles	pile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chips	chip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
30	off	off	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	prairie	prairie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	Nothing	nothing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Child	Child	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
45	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	over	over	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	piś	piś	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	kun	kun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
54	so	so	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
55	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
56	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	57	advmod	_	_
57	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	59	amod	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj:pass	_	_
60	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	aux:pass	_	_
61	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | man | this third and a fourth time |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | past | man |  |  | the piles |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **turn** | past | the chips | the piles *not said here* |  | buffaloes |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pile=Theme into buffalo=Trajectory |
| 4 | **rush off** | participle | the chips *not said here* |  |  | the prairie |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over prairie=Trajectory |
| 5 | **run** | past | Nothing Child | chips *= chip* |  | the camp |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme towards camp=Trajectory |
| 6 | **drive** | past | man *not said here* | chips *= chip* |  | the cliff |  | into the piś kun | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over cliff=Destination into kun=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **supply** | past · passive |  | the more camp |  |  |  | with meat | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with meat=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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