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# The Indian’s Eye Training

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The Indian’s Eye Training of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 23 sentences and 295 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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An Indian left his lodge for several days; when he came back, the dried deer meat which he had left hanging to a tree near his wigwam was gone.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") He did not go around asking questions of his neighbors, but just used his eyes instead of his tongue for the first hour, and his eyes told him many things.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics")

Then he went to a wigwam near by and asked: “Did you see a little, old, white man with a short gun?[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") Did you see him in the last two days?[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Did he have a small dog with a short tail?”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics")

The neighbor Indian said: “Yes, I saw him.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") He and his dog were on the trail going south.”[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics")

The Indian took the same trail and in a few days returned with the dog and the deer meat.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics")

Some white men had heard the questions of the Indian before he started out, and after he came back they went to him and said: “We want to know who took your meat.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") How did you know it was a white man?”[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics")

“White man turns toe out; Indian put foot so, one behind the other, walk straight.”[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics")

“How did you know that he was little and that he was old?”[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics")

“He put pile of stones by deer-meat tree; cannot reach, he little.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") He takes short steps; he old.”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics")

“How did you know that his gun was short?”[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics")

“He stick gun on ground against tree.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Gun muzzle make mark little way from ground.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Short gun.”[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics")

“Well, how did you ever know that he had a little dog like that, with a short tail?”[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics")

“Dog sit in the sand.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Watch man get meat.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Dog leave mark where he sit down in sand.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") Indian can see with two eyes.”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics")

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