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title: A daub of the brightest red paint went down the line marking the par… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A daub of the brightest red paint went down the line marking the parting of his hair. Who acts: daub, hair. 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 6

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A daub of the brightest red paint went down the line marking the parting of his hair.

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**Who acts:** daub, hair · **What happens:** go down, mark, part · **To what, where:** line, parting

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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 (daub, hair), 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:pg73136:13:6
# text = A daub of the brightest red paint went down the line marking the parting of his hair.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	daub	daub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | a daub of the brightest red paint | the line |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient line=Extent |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund | a daub of the brightest red paint *not said here* | the parting of daub's hair |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent parting=Destination |
| 3 | **part** |  | daub's hair |  |  |  |  |  | nom parting «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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