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title: Sometimes he would get over near to where the ring was being rolled,… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes he would get over near to where the ring was being rolled, and then the young Bulls would call out: “Here, hold on! Who acts: Coyote, young Bulls. 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 depende
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Girl Who Was the Ring \[1\], sentence 96

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Sometimes he would get over near to where the ring was being rolled, and then the young Bulls would call out: “Here, hold on!

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**Who acts:** Coyote, young Bulls · **What happens:** get over, roll, call out, hold on · **To what, where:** ring · **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 (Coyote, young Bulls), 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:pg66596:7:96
# text = Sometimes he would get over near to where the ring was being rolled, and then the young Bulls would call out: “Here, hold on!
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	near	near	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Bulls	Bull	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get over** | would | Coyote |  |  |  |  | near, sometimes *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **roll** | past · passive |  | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | would | the young Bulls |  |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hold on** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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