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title: The squaw, with her papoose and her boys, was soon far away from the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The squaw, with her papoose and her boys, was soon far away from the river bank; but during the hot summer, which was soon upon them, the same band returned to the river they had left. Who acts: squaw, river bank, boys. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, sentence 9

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The squaw, with her papoose and her boys, was soon far away from the river bank; but during the hot summer, which was soon upon them, the same band returned to the river they had left.

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**Who acts:** squaw, river bank, boys · **What happens:** be, return, leave · **To what, where:** river bank, same band, river

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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, river bank, boys), 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:pg73136:27:9
# text = The squaw, with her papoose and her boys, was soon far away from the river bank; but during the hot summer, which was soon upon them, the same band returned to the river they had left.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squaw	squaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	papoose	papoose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
21	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
35	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the squaw and squaw's papoose and squaw's boys |  |  | the river bank |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the river bank |  |  |  | summer | upon boys *= boy*; the same band *appos*; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **return** | participle |  | the same band *not said here* |  |  |  | to the river *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result |
| 4 | **leave** | past · perfect | boys *= boy* | the river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme |

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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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