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title: A squaw left her two boys to care for her papoose while she worked. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A squaw left her two boys to care for her papoose while she worked. Who acts: squaw. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 2

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A squaw left her two boys to care for her papoose while she worked.

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**Who acts:** squaw · **What happens:** leave, care, work · **To what, where:** her

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg73136:27:2
# text = A squaw left her two boys to care for her papoose while she worked.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squaw	squaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	papoose	papoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | a squaw | her *= she* |  |  |  | two boys *xcomp* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **care** | to-infinitive | a squaw *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for squaw's papoose | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for papoose=Theme |
| 3 | **work** | past | squaw |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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