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description: Quick as a flash she stooped among the low brush, crawled slowly back, and then, rising, hurried away in another direction. Who acts: two. 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
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, Little Friend Coyote, sentence 91

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Quick as a flash she stooped among the low brush, crawled slowly back, and then, rising, hurried away in another direction.

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**Who acts:** two · **What happens:** stoop, crawl, rise, hurry away · **To what, where:** flash, direction

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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), 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:pg66596:18:91
# text = Quick as a flash she stooped among the low brush, crawled slowly back, and then, rising, hurried away in another direction.
1	Quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	brush	brush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	crawled	crawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past | two | a flash *not said here* |  |  |  | among the low brush | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flash=Theme |
| 2 | **crawl** | past | two *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | two *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hurry away** | participle | two *not said here* |  |  | another direction |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=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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