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title: Again they would be separated by hundreds of miles of rolling plain. — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Again they would be separated by hundreds of miles of rolling plain. Who acts: hundreds, miles. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Little Friend Coyote, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 5

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Again they would be separated by hundreds of miles of rolling plain.

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**Who acts:** hundreds, miles · **What happens:** separate, roll · **To what, where:** camps

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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 (hundreds, miles), 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:pg66596:18:5
# text = Again they would be separated by hundreds of miles of rolling plain.
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | would · passive | hundreds of miles | camps *= camp* |  |  | again |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **roll** | gerund | miles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | plain *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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