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title: In those days, in the long ago, such inter-tribal marriages were com… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: In those days, in the long ago, such inter-tribal marriages were common, for the two great camps often travelled together in quest of the buffalo, sometimes for a whole winter and summer, and thus the young people became acquainted with each other. Who acts: such inter tribal marriages, two great ca
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 4

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In those days, in the long ago, such inter-tribal marriages were common, for the two great camps often travelled together in quest of the buffalo, sometimes for a whole winter and summer, and thus the young people became acquainted with each other.

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**Who acts:** such inter tribal marriages, two great camps, young people, buffalo · **What happens:** be, travel, become, quest · **To what, where:** quest

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such inter tribal marriages, two great camps, young people, buffalo), 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:pg66596:18:4
# text = In those days, in the long ago, such inter-tribal marriages were common, for the two great camps often travelled together in quest of the buffalo, sometimes for a whole winter and summer, and thus the young people became acquainted with each other.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	inter	inter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tribal	tribal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	marriages	marriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	camps	camp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
46	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	xcomp	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	46	obl	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | such inter tribal marriages |  |  |  | day | ago, common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **travel** | past | the two great camps |  |  | quest of the buffalo | winter | often, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in quest=Trajectory |
| 3 | **become** | past | the young people |  |  |  |  | acquainted, thus *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **quest** |  | the buffalo |  |  |  |  |  | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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