--- title: At last, when he dug out of the ground, he saw not far off the Kit F… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics description: At last, when he dug out of the ground, he saw not far off the Kit Fox, lying curled upon a rock, asleep in the sun. He called out: “Oh, my brother, I am almost tired out! Who acts: Buffalo, some. 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He called out: “Oh, my brother, I am almost tired out! **Who acts:** Buffalo, some · **What happens:** dig out, not see, lie, curl, call out, be · **To what, where:** ground, sun. · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, some), 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:pg66596:7:140 # text = At last, when he dug out of the ground, he saw not far off the Kit Fox, lying curled upon a rock, asleep in the sun. He called out: “Oh, my brother, I am almost tired out! 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 dug dig VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 15 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ _ 16 off off ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 Kit kit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 22 curled curl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 xcomp _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ _ 35 “ " PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 44 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 almost almost ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 45 out out ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig out** | past | Buffalo | the ground | | | | at last | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Instrument at last=Theme | | 2 | **not** **see** | past | Buffalo | | | | | off the Kit Fox; far *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | Buffalo *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **curl** | participle | Buffalo *not said here* | | | | | upon a rock | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | Buffalo | the sun. *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sun.=Recipient | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | some of the Buffalo on the outside of the herd *= some* | | | | | almost, tired *property* | tree rules | 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 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/139/) - next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/141/) - ↑ back to [The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg66596/7/)