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title: Two Indians from the Seneca Reservation went hunting; they went on a… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Two Indians from the Seneca Reservation went hunting; they went on a long trail, but at last found a place where the deer come to eat the salt that is in the sand; it is called a “salt lick.” Who acts: Two Indians, Indians, deer, salt. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 2

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Two Indians from the Seneca Reservation went hunting; they went on a long trail, but at last found a place where the deer come to eat the salt that is in the sand; it is called a “salt lick.”

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**Who acts:** Two Indians, Indians, deer, salt · **What happens:** go, hunt, find, come, eat, be · **To what, where:** Seneca Reservation, long trail, place, last, salt, sand · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. the Little People of the Senecas. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two Indians, Indians, deer, salt), 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:pg73136:35:2
# text = Two Indians from the Seneca Reservation went hunting; they went on a long trail, but at last found a place where the deer come to eat the salt that is in the sand; it is called a “salt lick.”
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Seneca	Seneca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Reservation	reservation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	lick	lick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Two Indians |  |  | the Seneca Reservation |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hunt** | gerund | Two Indians *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | Indians *= indian* |  |  | a long trail |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trail=Location |
| 4 | **find** | past | Indians *= indian* *not said here* | a place |  | last |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at last=Asset |
| 5 | **come** | present | the deer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the deer *not said here* | the salt |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | present | the salt |  |  | the sand |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **call** | present · passive |  | salt |  |  |  | a salt lick *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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