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title: The Indians waited in the trees until many deer came; they shot at t… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indians waited in the trees until many deer came; they shot at the deer, which fell like wild ducks when the rice is ripe. Who acts: Indians, many deer, deer, rice. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. the Little People of the Senecas, with its
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 3

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The Indians waited in the trees until many deer came; they shot at the deer, which fell like wild ducks when the rice is ripe.

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**Who acts:** Indians, many deer, deer, rice · **What happens:** wait, come, shoot, fall, be · **To what, where:** trees, deer

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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 (Indians, many deer, deer, rice), 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:pg73136:35:3
# text = The Indians waited in the trees until many deer came; they shot at the deer, which fell like wild ducks when the rice is ripe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | the Indians |  |  | the trees |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past | many deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shoot** | past | deer |  |  | the deer |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at deer=Destination |
| 4 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like wild ducks; which *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | the rice |  |  |  |  | ripe *property* | tree rules |

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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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