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title: The next morning they all went out to visit their traps, and in almo… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The next morning they all went out to visit their traps, and in almost all the traps they found something—wolves, foxes, badgers, and other animals. Who acts: children. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Nothing Child, with its dependency 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Nothing Child, sentence 98

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The next morning they all went out to visit their traps, and in almost all the traps they found something—wolves, foxes, badgers, and other animals.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** go out, visit, find · **To what, where:** traps, something

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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 (children), 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:pg66596:15:98
# text = The next morning they all went out to visit their traps, and in almost all the traps they found something—wolves, foxes, badgers, and other animals.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	traps	trap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	badgers	badger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  | morning | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **visit** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children's traps |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | children *= child* | something  wolves and foxes and badgers  other animals |  | all traps |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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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