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title: The next time you watch the dark triangle of wild geese flying north… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The next time you watch the dark triangle of wild geese flying northward, you can say it is near the time of the Egg Moon of the Dakotas. Who acts: you, wild geese, triangle. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moon
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 27

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The next time you watch the dark triangle of wild geese flying northward, you can say it is near the time of the Egg Moon of the Dakotas.

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**Who acts:** you, wild geese, triangle · **What happens:** watch, fly, say, be · **To what, where:** dark triangle · **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 (you, wild geese, triangle), 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:pg73136:15:27
# text = The next time you watch the dark triangle of wild geese flying northward, you can say it is near the time of the Egg Moon of the Dakotas.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	triangle	triangle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Egg	Egg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Dakotas	dakota	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present | you | the dark triangle of wild geese |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triangle=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | wild geese *not said here* |  |  |  |  | northward *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | triangle |  |  |  | near the time | of the Egg Moon; of the Dakotas | tree rules |

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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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