---
title: Dog leave mark where he sit down in sand. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Dog leave mark where he sit down in sand. Who acts: you, dog. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/11/22/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / [The Indian’s Eye Training](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/11/) / 22

# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian’s Eye Training, sentence 22

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dog leave mark where he sit down in sand.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, dog · **What happens:** leave, sit down · **To what, where:** mark, sand

<!-- .vabout -->
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, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg73136:11:22
# text = Dog leave mark where he sit down in sand.
1	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | imperative | you *not said here* | mark |  |  |  | Dog *compound* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | infinitive | dog |  |  | sand |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/11/21/)
- next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/11/23/)
- ↑ back to [The Indian’s Eye Training](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/11/)