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title: The Snake was right behind her, creeping through the brush. — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Snake was right behind her, creeping through the brush. Who acts: Snake. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Shield Quiver’s Wife, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Shield Quiver’s Wife, sentence 67

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The Snake was right behind her, creeping through the brush.

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**Who acts:** Snake · **What happens:** be, creep · **To what, where:** brush

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Shield Quiver’s Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snake), 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:pg66596:16:67
# text = The Snake was right behind her, creeping through the brush.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Snake |  |  |  |  | behind girl; right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund | the Snake *not said here* |  |  | the brush |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through brush=Trajectory |

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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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