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title: The hunters went on carrying great rolls of deerskin, which were ver… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The hunters went on carrying great rolls of deerskin, which were very heavy. Who acts: hunters, great rolls. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X. the Little People of the Senecas, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, X. the Little People of the Senecas, sentence 6

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The hunters went on carrying great rolls of deerskin, which were very heavy.

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**Who acts:** hunters, great rolls · **What happens:** go, carry, be, roll · **To what, where:** great rolls, deerskin

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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 (hunters, great rolls), 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:pg73136:35:6
# text = The hunters went on carrying great rolls of deerskin, which were very heavy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	deerskin	deerskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the hunters |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | gerund | the hunters *not said here* | great rolls of deerskin |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roll=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | great rolls of deerskin |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **roll** |  |  | deerskin |  |  |  |  | nom roll «event transitive»: of=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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