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title: Sometimes the young brave was strong; he would stand on the slippery… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes the young brave was strong; he would stand on the slippery rock like an eagle resting on the mountain. Who acts: young brave, arrow, eagle. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, with its dependency t
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley, sentence 17

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Sometimes the young brave was strong; he would stand on the slippery rock like an eagle resting on the mountain.

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**Who acts:** young brave, arrow, eagle · **What happens:** be, stand, rest · **To what, where:** slippery rock, mountain

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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 (young brave, arrow, eagle), 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:pg73136:28:17
# text = Sometimes the young brave was strong; he would stand on the slippery rock like an eagle resting on the mountain.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the young brave |  |  |  |  | sometimes, strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | would | arrow |  |  | the slippery rock |  | like a eagle | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location |
| 3 | **rest** | gerund | a eagle *not said here* |  |  | the mountain |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=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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