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title: The first man was slow to learn and he stood many moons in his place… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The first man was slow to learn and he stood many moons in his place in the pipestone rocks; nothing came to hurt him. Who acts: first man, man, nothing. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, with its dependency t
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 18

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The first man was slow to learn and he stood many moons in his place in the pipestone rocks; nothing came to hurt him.

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**Who acts:** first man, man, nothing · **What happens:** be, learn, stand, come, hurt · **To what, where:** many moons, place, man

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first man, man, nothing), 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:pg73136:32:18
# text = The first man was slow to learn and he stood many moons in his place in the pipestone rocks; nothing came to hurt him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	pipestone	pipestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the first man |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | the first man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | past | man | many moons |  | man's place |  | in the pipestone rocks | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent moon=Theme in place=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurt** | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |

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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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