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title: There was a noise of many feet as Stikuá and the other women came ru… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a noise of many feet as Stikuá and the other women came running down to get their mussels, and carried them up to the houses. Who acts: noise, Stikuá, many feet. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story, with its depend
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 24

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There was a noise of many feet as Stikuá and the other women came running down to get their mussels, and carried them up to the houses.

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**Who acts:** noise, Stikuá, many feet · **What happens:** be, come, run down, get, carry up, noise · **To what, where:** mussels, houses

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, Stikuá, many feet), 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:pg66596:4:24
# text = There was a noise of many feet as Stikuá and the other women came running down to get their mussels, and carried them up to the houses.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	Stikuá	Stikuá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mussels	mussel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a noise of many feet |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | Stikuá and the other women |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run down** | gerund | Stikuá and the other women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Stikuá and the other women *not said here* | people's mussels |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mussel=Stimulus |
| 5 | **carry up** | past | Stikuá and the other women *not said here* | Mussels *= mussel* |  | the houses |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination |
| 6 | **noise** |  | many feet |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event 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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