--- title: He went backward and forward, looking at the sticks, and stooping do… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: He went backward and forward, looking at the sticks, and stooping down and putting his hands on his knees and squinting, and at last, when once his face was close to the ground, he suddenly snatched up the ring in his mouth, and started, running as hard as he could, for the place where he had left t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/121/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Punishment of the Stingy, and Othe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/) / [The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/) / 121 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\], sentence 121 He went backward and forward, looking at the sticks, and stooping down and putting his hands on his knees and squinting, and at last, when once his face was close to the ground, he suddenly snatched up the ring in his mouth, and started, running as hard as he could, for the place where he had left the Badger. **Who acts:** Coyote, face · **What happens:** go, look, stoop down, put, be, snatch up · **To what, where:** hands, knees, ring, last, Badger 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 (Coyote, face), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg66596:7:121 # text = He went backward and forward, looking at the sticks, and stooping down and putting his hands on his knees and squinting, and at last, when once his face was close to the ground, he suddenly snatched up the ring in his mouth, and started, running as hard as he could, for the place where he had left the Badger. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 backward backward ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 forward forward ADV RB _ 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sticks stick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 stooping stoop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 14 down down ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 squinting squinting NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 when when SCONJ WRB _ 34 mark _ _ 30 once once SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 snatched snatch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 52 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 50 advcl _ _ 53 as as ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 52 advmod _ _ 55 as as SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 56 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 for for ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 61 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 62 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 65 advmod _ _ 63 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 64 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 65 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 61 acl:relcl _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 67 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 65 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Coyote | | | | | backward *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | Coyote *not said here* | | | | | at the sticks | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stick=Theme | | 3 | **stoop down** | gerund | Coyote *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put** | gerund | Coyote *not said here* | Coyote's hands | | Coyote's knees and squinting | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on knee=Destination | | 5 | **is** | past | Coyote's face | | | | | to the ground; close *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **snatch up** | past | Coyote | the ring | | last | | in Coyote's mouth; suddenly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | | 7 | **start** | past | Coyote *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **run** | gerund | Coyote *not said here* | | | | | for the place; hard *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for place=Beneficiary | | 9 | **leave** | past · perfect | Coyote | the Badger | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/122/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/)