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title: February is when the braves and the boys take their dogs and hunt th… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: February is when the braves and the boys take their dogs and hunt the raccoon; hence, they call it the ’Coon Moon. Who acts: February, braves. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, with its dependency tree and 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 21

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February is when the braves and the boys take their dogs and hunt the raccoon; hence, they call it the ’Coon Moon.

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**Who acts:** February, braves · **What happens:** be, take, hunt, call · **To what, where:** dogs, raccoon · **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 Names For the Months or Moons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (February, braves), 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:pg73136:15:21
# text = February is when the braves and the boys take their dogs and hunt the raccoon; hence, they call it the ’Coon Moon.
1	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	raccoon	raccoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
17	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Coon	Coon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | February |  |  |  |  | when *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | the braves and the boys |  | braves's dogs |  |  | hence *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument dog=Destination |
| 3 | **hunt** | present | the braves and the boys *not said here* | the raccoon |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raccoon=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present | braves *= brave* | raccoon |  |  |  | the Coon Moon *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |

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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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