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title: “Thlu-tchu! the lightning arrows shot toward every point. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thlu-tchu! the lightning arrows shot toward every point. Who acts: lightning arrows. 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 40

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“Thlu-tchu! the lightning arrows shot toward every point.

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**Who acts:** lightning arrows · **What happens:** shot · **To what, where:** Thlu

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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 (lightning arrows), 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:pg73136:24:40
# text = “Thlu-tchu! the lightning arrows shot toward every point.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thlu	Thlu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	tchu	tchu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shot	shot	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shot** *in a quote* | present | the lightning arrows | Thlu |  |  |  | toward every point | 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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