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title: Near the Falls of Winniwissi is a great rock; it is as tall as two b… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the Falls of Winniwissi is a great rock; it is as tall as two braves. Who acts: Winniwissi, rock. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 1

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Near the Falls of Winniwissi is a great rock; it is as tall as two braves.

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**Who acts:** Winniwissi, rock · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Falls

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winniwissi, rock), 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:pg73136:28:1
# text = Near the Falls of Winniwissi is a great rock; it is as tall as two braves.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Falls	Falls	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	Winniwissi	Winniwissi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Winniwissi |  |  |  |  | of a great rock | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | rock |  |  | the Falls |  | as two braves; tall *property* | tree rules |

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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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