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title: The traveler gives this account: “The Indian had secured at Fort Sne… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The traveler gives this account: “The Indian had secured at Fort Snelling, near St. Paul, a bit of broken looking-glass, and there he sat on deck, painting his face and neck. Who acts: traveler, Indian, Fort. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The I
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian At Home, sentence 5

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The traveler gives this account: “The Indian had secured at Fort Snelling, near St. Paul, a bit of broken looking-glass, and there he sat on deck, painting his face and neck.

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**Who acts:** traveler, Indian, Fort · **What happens:** give, secure, snell, break, look, sit · **To what, where:** account, Paul, bit, glass, deck, face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Indian, Fort), 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:pg73136:13:5
# text = The traveler gives this account: “The Indian had secured at Fort Snelling, near St. Paul, a bit of broken looking-glass, and there he sat on deck, painting his face and neck.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Fort	Fort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	_
14	Snelling	snell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	painting	paint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | the traveler | this account |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **secure** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the Indian |  |  | Paul  St. |  | Fort *obl:agent* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **snell** *in a quote* | gerund | Fort *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** *in a quote* | participle |  | a bit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | gerund |  | glass |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glass=Attribute |
| 6 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | traveler |  |  | deck; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location |
| 7 | **paint** *in a quote* | gerund | traveler *not said here* | traveler's face and neck |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent face=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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