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title: Gun muzzle make mark little way from ground. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Gun muzzle make mark little way from ground. Who acts: Gun muzzle. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian’s Eye Training, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 17

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Gun muzzle make mark little way from ground.

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**Who acts:** Gun muzzle · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** mark, ground

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian’s Eye Training. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gun muzzle), 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:pg73136:11:17
# text = Gun muzzle make mark little way from ground.
1	Gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	muzzle	muzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	mark	MarkPalmer@ENRON	X	GW	_	3	obj	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Gun muzzle | mark |  | ground |  | little way *obl:unmarked* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset markpalmer@enron=Product from ground=Material |

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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:** «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Project Gutenberg book 73136 (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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