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title: Seeds from thistle and the milkweed are filling the air with their d… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeds from thistle and the milkweed are filling the air with their downy carriers. Who acts: Seeds. 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 the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 45

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Seeds from thistle and the milkweed are filling the air with their downy carriers.

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**Who acts:** Seeds · **What happens:** fill · **To what, where:** air

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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 (Seeds), 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:pg73136:15:45
# text = Seeds from thistle and the milkweed are filling the air with their downy carriers.
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	thistle	thistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	milkweed	milkweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	downy	downy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	carriers	carrier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | present · progressive | Seeds from thistle and the milkweed | the air |  |  |  | with Seeds's downy carriers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with carrier=Instrument |

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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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