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title: He cut three geese loose; the other three broke the strings which ti… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He cut three geese loose; the other three broke the strings which tied them. Who acts: flock, other three, strings. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 11

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He cut three geese loose; the other three broke the strings which tied them.

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**Who acts:** flock, other three, strings · **What happens:** cut, break, tie · **To what, where:** three geese, strings, geese

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, other three, strings), 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:pg73136:36:11
# text = He cut three geese loose; the other three broke the strings which tied them.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
10	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | flock | three geese |  |  |  | loose *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Product |
| 2 | **break** | past | the other three | the strings |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer string=Patient |
| 3 | **tie** | past | the strings | geese *= goose* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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