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title: The older brother shot with an arrow the lightning arrows where they… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The older brother shot with an arrow the lightning arrows where they crossed upon the rainbow. 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 eve
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 39

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The older brother shot with an arrow the lightning arrows where they crossed upon the rainbow.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** cross · **To what, where:** older brother shot

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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:pg73136:24:39
# text = The older brother shot with an arrow the lightning arrows where they crossed upon the rainbow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | upon the rainbow | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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