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title: She almost fainted with fright, knowing that these were some of her… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: She almost fainted with fright, knowing that these were some of her pursuers waiting for daylight to resume their search. Who acts: two, pursuers. 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 pr
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 90

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She almost fainted with fright, knowing that these were some of her pursuers waiting for daylight to resume their search.

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**Who acts:** two, pursuers · **What happens:** faint, know, wait, resume, search · **To what, where:** some, search

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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 (two, pursuers), 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:pg66596:18:90
# text = She almost fainted with fright, knowing that these were some of her pursuers waiting for daylight to resume their search.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fainted	faint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pursuers	pursuer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	resume	resume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **faint** | past | two |  |  |  |  | with fright; almost *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | two *not said here* | some  these of two's pursuers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | two's pursuers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for daylight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **resume** | to-infinitive | two's pursuers *not said here* | pursuers's search |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality |
| 5 | **search** |  | pursuers *= pursuer* |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: poss=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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