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title: There was a noise of feet running, and Stikuá and her children came… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a noise of feet running, and Stikuá and her children came running to the beach with all the other women. Who acts: noise, feet, Stikuá. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, A Bluejay Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, A Bluejay Story, sentence 49

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There was a noise of feet running, and Stikuá and her children came running to the beach with all the other women.

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**Who acts:** noise, feet, Stikuá · **What happens:** be, run, come, noise

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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, feet, Stikuá), 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:pg66596:4:49
# text = There was a noise of feet running, and Stikuá and her children came running to the beach with all the other women.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
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	_	6	case	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	Stikuá	Stikuá	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 feet |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | Stikuá and Stikuá's children |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | Stikuá and Stikuá's children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the beach *result*; with all other women | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beach=Result |
| 5 | **noise** |  | 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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