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title: Before he had gone very far, some of the Buffalo on the outside of t… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Before he had gone very far, some of the Buffalo on the outside of the herd saw him, and called out to the others: “There he is! Who acts: Badger, some. 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 
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\], sentence 133

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Before he had gone very far, some of the Buffalo on the outside of the herd saw him, and called out to the others: “There he is!

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**Who acts:** Badger, some · **What happens:** go, see, call out, be · **To what, where:** Badger, others · **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 (Badger, some), 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:pg66596:7:133
# text = Before he had gone very far, some of the Buffalo on the outside of the herd saw him, and called out to the others: “There he is!
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | Badger |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | some of the Buffalo on the outside of the herd | Badger |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | some of the Buffalo on the outside of the herd *not said here* |  | the others |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Badger |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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