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title: The deer lose their long antlers about this time, and the Indians ca… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The deer lose their long antlers about this time, and the Indians can find them in the forests where the deer trails are. Who acts: deer, Indians, deer trails. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, with its dep
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, The Indian Names For the Months or Moons, sentence 57

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The deer lose their long antlers about this time, and the Indians can find them in the forests where the deer trails are.

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**Who acts:** deer, Indians, deer trails · **What happens:** lose, find, be · **To what, where:** long antlers, antlers, forests

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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 (deer, Indians, deer trails), 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:pg73136:15:57
# text = The deer lose their long antlers about this time, and the Indians can find them in the forests where the deer trails are.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	nmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	compound	_	_
23	trails	trail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | present | the deer | Horns's long antlers |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | can | the Indians | antlers *= antler* |  | the forests |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | deer trails |  |  |  |  | where *property* | 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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