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description: At length two of the young Bulls had a very fierce dispute, and almost came to fighting over it. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Girl Who Was the Ring [1], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\], sentence 113

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At length two of the young Bulls had a very fierce dispute, and almost came to fighting over it.

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**What happens:** have, come, fight · **To what, where:** fierce dispute, length

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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: 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:pg66596:7:113
# text = At length two of the young Bulls had a very fierce dispute, and almost came to fighting over it.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Bulls	Bull	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  | a fierce dispute |  | length of the young Bulls |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispute=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over dispute | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over it=Theme |

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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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