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title: Just then he came to a lake on which many wild geese were swimming,… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Just then he came to a lake on which many wild geese were swimming, and he wanted some meat. Who acts: Indian, many wild geese. 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 cla
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the Hunter Who Could Fly, sentence 4

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Just then he came to a lake on which many wild geese were swimming, and he wanted some meat.

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**Who acts:** Indian, many wild geese · **What happens:** come, swim, want · **To what, where:** lake, meat

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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 (Indian, many wild geese), 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:pg73136:36:4
# text = Just then he came to a lake on which many wild geese were swimming, and he wanted some meat.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Indian |  |  | a lake | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **swim** | past · progressive | many wild geese |  |  | a lake |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on which=Trajectory |
| 3 | **want** | past | Indian | some meat |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme |

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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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