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title: Every now and then two of the young Bulls would begin to dispute ove… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every now and then two of the young Bulls would begin to dispute over the game, each saying that his stick was the nearer to the ring, and sometimes they would wrangle for a long time. Who acts: two, each, stick, sticks. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by Georg
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\], sentence 100

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Every now and then two of the young Bulls would begin to dispute over the game, each saying that his stick was the nearer to the ring, and sometimes they would wrangle for a long time.

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**Who acts:** two, each, stick, sticks · **What happens:** begin, dispute, say, be, wrangle · **To what, where:** game · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, each, stick, sticks), 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:pg66596:7:100
# text = Every now and then two of the young Bulls would begin to dispute over the game, each saying that his stick was the nearer to the ring, and sometimes they would wrangle for a long time.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	dispute	dispute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	wrangle	wrangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | would | two of the young Bulls |  |  |  | now; then |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **dispute** | to-infinitive | two of the young Bulls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over the game | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over game=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | each | the game *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent game=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | Coyote's stick |  |  |  |  | to the ring; near *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wrangle** | would | sticks *= stick* |  |  |  | time | sometimes *property* | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=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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