--- title: The Buffalo crowded about the Badger’s hole, and began to paw the gr… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: The Buffalo crowded about the Badger’s hole, and began to paw the ground, to dig it up so as to get the Coyote and the ring, but the Badger had dug a hole a long way under the ground, and while the Buffalo were digging he ran along through this hole and came out far off, and ran as hard as he could --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/132/) [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/) / 132 # The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\], sentence 132 The Buffalo crowded about the Badger’s hole, and began to paw the ground, to dig it up so as to get the Coyote and the ring, but the Badger had dug a hole a long way under the ground, and while the Buffalo were digging he ran along through this hole and came out far off, and ran as hard as he could towards the brothers’ lodge. **Who acts:** Buffalo, Badger · **What happens:** crowd, begin, dig up, get, dig, run along · **To what, where:** paw, ground, Coyote, hole, lodge 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 (Buffalo, Badger), 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:pg66596:7:132 # text = The Buffalo crowded about the Badger’s hole, and began to paw the ground, to dig it up so as to get the Coyote and the ring, but the Badger had dug a hole a long way under the ground, and while the Buffalo were digging he ran along through this hole and came out far off, and ran as hard as he could towards the brothers’ lodge. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Buffalo Buffalo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 crowded crowd VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 as as SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 Coyote coyote NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 Badger Badger PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 41 under under ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 46 while while SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Buffalo Buffalo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 49 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 digging dig VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 51 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 parataxis _ _ 53 along along ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 through through ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 56 det _ _ 56 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 58 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 59 out out ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 60 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 61 advmod _ _ 61 off off ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 64 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 65 as as ADV RB _ 66 advmod _ _ 66 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 xcomp _ _ 67 as as SCONJ IN _ 69 mark _ _ 68 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 69 nsubj _ _ 69 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 66 advcl _ _ 70 towards towards ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 72 det _ _ 72 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 74 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 73 ’ 's PART POS _ 72 case _ _ 74 lodge lodge NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crowd** | past | the Buffalo | | | | | about the Badger's hole | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about hole=Destination | | 2 | **begin** | past | | paw | | | | the ground *obj* | tree rules | | 3 | **dig up** | to-infinitive | | ground | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | | the Coyote and the ring | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coyote=Stimulus | | 5 | **dig** | past · perfect | the Badger | a hole | | | | a long way *obj* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent hole=Beneficiary way=Result | | 6 | **dig** | past · progressive | the Buffalo | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **run along** | past | Buffalo | | | this hole | | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Trajectory | | 8 | **come out** | past | Buffalo *not said here* | | | | | off, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **run** | past | | | | the brothers's lodge | | hard *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards lodge=Destination | 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 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/133/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/)