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title: They put the magic shield upon the earth and laid the rainbow upon it. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They put the magic shield upon the earth and laid the rainbow upon it. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 37

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They put the magic shield upon the earth and laid the rainbow upon it.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** put, lay · **To what, where:** magic shield, earth, rainbow

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg73136:24:37
# text = They put the magic shield upon the earth and laid the rainbow upon it.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | children *= child* | the magic shield |  | the earth |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent shield=Theme upon earth=Destination |
| 2 | **lay** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | the rainbow |  | earth |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rainbow=Theme upon it=Destination |

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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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