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title: He fed on the wild buffaloes that lived on the prairies. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He fed on the wild buffaloes that lived on the prairies. Who acts: Manitou, wild buffaloes. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, VII. Story of the First Man and Woman, sentence 4

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He fed on the wild buffaloes that lived on the prairies.

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**Who acts:** Manitou, wild buffaloes · **What happens:** feed, live · **To what, where:** prairies

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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 (Manitou, wild buffaloes), 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:pg73136:32:4
# text = He fed on the wild buffaloes that lived on the prairies.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | Manitou |  |  |  |  | on the wild buffaloes | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on buffalo=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | past | the wild buffaloes |  |  | the prairies |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on prairie=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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