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title: A brave, if he lay down on it and put out his hands, would put his h… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A brave, if he lay down on it and put out his hands, would put his hands on nothing. Who acts: Winniwissi. 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 4

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A brave, if he lay down on it and put out his hands, would put his hands on nothing.

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**Who acts:** Winniwissi · **What happens:** lie down, put out, put · **To what, where:** rock, hands, nothing

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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), 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:pg73136:28:4
# text = A brave, if he lay down on it and put out his hands, would put his hands on nothing.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | past | Winniwissi |  |  | rock |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location |
| 2 | **put out** | infinitive | Winniwissi *not said here* | Winniwissi's hands |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal |
| 3 | **put** | would | Winniwissi *not said here* | Winniwissi's hands |  | nothing |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on nothing=Destination |

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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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