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title: The shot fell through the loons and killed a muskalonge; this is the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The shot fell through the loons and killed a muskalonge; this is the great fish that lives in the lakes. Who acts: shot, this, great fish. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 125

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The shot fell through the loons and killed a muskalonge; this is the great fish that lives in the lakes.

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**Who acts:** shot, this, great fish · **What happens:** fall, kill, be, live · **To what, where:** loons, muskalonge, great fish, lakes

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shot, this, great fish), 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:pg73136:26:125
# text = The shot fell through the loons and killed a muskalonge; this is the great fish that lives in the lakes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	loons	loon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	muskalonge	muskalonge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the shot |  |  | the loons |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through loon=Location |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the shot *not said here* | a muskalonge |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muskalonge=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | this | the great fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | present | the great fish |  |  | the lakes |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=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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