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title: Watch man get meat. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Watch man get meat. Who acts: you, man. 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 21

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Watch man get meat.

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** watch, get · **To what, where:** man, meat

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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 (you, man), 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:pg73136:11:21
# text = Watch man get meat.
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | imperative | you *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | man *not said here* | meat |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meat=Stimulus |

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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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