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title: The snakes came out of the den—great lots of them—and came towards t… — The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian S… · tree and pragmatics
description: The snakes came out of the den—great lots of them—and came towards the boys. Who acts: snakes. A sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The Star Boy, sentence 100

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The snakes came out of the den—great lots of them—and came towards the boys.

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**Who acts:** snakes · **What happens:** come out, come · **To what, where:** den

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This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The Star Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snakes), 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:pg66596:9:100
# text = The snakes came out of the den—great lots of them—and came towards the boys.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the snakes | the den and great lots of fathers |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient den=Result |
| 2 | **come** | past | the snakes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards the boys | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards boy=Initial\_Location |

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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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