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title: He would come to a lodge of our tribe, my grandfather said, and woul… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He would come to a lodge of our tribe, my grandfather said, and would look at the duck the squaw was roasting. Who acts: Iagoo, grandfather, squaw. 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
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller, sentence 25

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He would come to a lodge of our tribe, my grandfather said, and would look at the duck the squaw was roasting.

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**Who acts:** Iagoo, grandfather, squaw · **What happens:** come, say, look, roast · **To what, where:** lodge, duck · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Iagoo, grandfather, squaw), 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:pg73136:26:25
# text = He would come to a lodge of our tribe, my grandfather said, and would look at the duck the squaw was roasting.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	squaw	squaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	roasting	roast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | would | Iagoo |  |  | a lodge of our tribe |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | my grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | would | Iagoo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the duck | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at duck=Theme |
| 4 | **roast** | past · progressive | the squaw | the duck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent duck=Patient |

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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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