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title: Sometimes they come on the fireflies, and sometimes the mosquitoes a… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes they come on the fireflies, and sometimes the mosquitoes and busy gnats bring them. Who acts: stories, mosquitoes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 25

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Sometimes they come on the fireflies, and sometimes the mosquitoes and busy gnats bring them.

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**Who acts:** stories, mosquitoes · **What happens:** come, bring · **To what, where:** fireflies, stories

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, mosquitoes), 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:pg73136:34:25
# text = Sometimes they come on the fireflies, and sometimes the mosquitoes and busy gnats bring them.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fireflies	firefly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | stories *= story* |  |  | the fireflies |  | sometimes *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on firefly=Location |
| 2 | **bring** | present | the mosquitoes and busy gnats | stories *= story* |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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