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title: He comes every night and brings so many tiny warriors with him that… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He comes every night and brings so many tiny warriors with him that each eyelid is conquered and closed till morning. Who acts: Weenk. 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 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IX. Weenk the Sleep-bringer and His Warriors, sentence 3

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He comes every night and brings so many tiny warriors with him that each eyelid is conquered and closed till morning.

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**Who acts:** Weenk · **What happens:** come, bring, conquer, close · **To what, where:** many tiny warriors, eyelid

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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 (Weenk), 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:pg73136:34:3
# text = He comes every night and brings so many tiny warriors with him that each eyelid is conquered and closed till morning.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	eyelid	eyelid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	till	till	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	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 | **come** | present | Weenk |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | present | Weenk *not said here* | many tiny warriors |  |  |  | with Weenk | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme |
| 3 | **conquer** | present · passive |  | each eyelid |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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