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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\], sentence 9

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They would quickly carry the girl into the lodge, and would kill so many Buffalo that the rest would be frightened and run away.

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**Who acts:** boys · **What happens:** carry, kill, frighten, run away · **To what, where:** girl, lodge, many Buffalo, rest

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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 (boys), 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:pg66596:7:9
# text = They would quickly carry the girl into the lodge, and would kill so many Buffalo that the rest would be frightened and run away.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Buffalo	Buffalo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | would | boys *= boy* | the girl |  | the lodge |  | quickly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | would | boys *= boy* *not said here* | many Buffalo |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme |
| 3 | **frighten** | would · passive |  | the rest |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **run away** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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