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title: All around—from all sides—the Buffalo were coming in great crowds. — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: All around—from all sides—the Buffalo were coming in great crowds. Who acts: sides. 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 44

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All around—from all sides—the Buffalo were coming in great crowds.

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**Who acts:** sides · **What happens:** come in · **To what, where:** great crowds

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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 (sides), 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:pg66596:7:44
# text = All around—from all sides—the Buffalo were coming in great crowds.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	crowds	crowd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past · progressive | all sides  the Buffalo | great crowds |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crowd=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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