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title: A traveler, in 1835, was taking a trip up the Mississippi. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A traveler, in 1835, was taking a trip up the Mississippi. Who acts: traveler. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 3

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A traveler, in 1835, was taking a trip up the Mississippi.

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**Who acts:** traveler · **What happens:** take up · **To what, where:** trip

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian At Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traveler), 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:pg73136:13:3
# text = A traveler, in 1835, was taking a trip up the Mississippi.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	1835	1835	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take up** | past · progressive | a traveler | a trip |  |  |  | the Mississippi *obj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument trip=Theme mississippi=Destination |

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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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