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title: “Thus the people were led out of the deep caves; thus the land becam… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “Thus the people were led out of the deep caves; thus the land became dry, and men came to live on the earth.” Who acts: land, men. 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 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How the Cave People Found Dry Land on the Earth, sentence 46

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“Thus the people were led out of the deep caves; thus the land became dry, and men came to live on the earth.”

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**Who acts:** land, men · **What happens:** lead, become, come, live · **To what, where:** people, deep caves, earth

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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 (land, men), 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:pg73136:24:46
# text = “Thus the people were led out of the deep caves; thus the land became dry, and men came to live on the earth.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the people |  | the deep caves |  | thus *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme out cave=Destination |
| 2 | **become** *in a quote* | past | the land |  |  |  |  | dry, thus *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | past | men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | men *not said here* |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |

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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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