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title: The squaws had led their captors by the shortest way, but it was the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The squaws had led their captors by the shortest way, but it was the way of death to each one. Who acts: shortest way, way. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band, sentence 20

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The squaws had led their captors by the shortest way, but it was the way of death to each one.

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**Who acts:** shortest way, way · **What happens:** lead, be · **To what, where:** squaws, way, one

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, V. How Two Squaws Saved Their Band. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shortest way, way), 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:pg73136:30:20
# text = The squaws had led their captors by the shortest way, but it was the way of death to each one.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squaws	squaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	captors	captor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	shortest	short	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past · perfect · passive | the shortest way | the squaws |  |  |  | squaws's captors *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | way | the way | each one |  |  | of death | 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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