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title: Put that long bushy tail of yours into the water. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Put that long bushy tail of yours into the water. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail, sentence 23

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Put that long bushy tail of yours into the water.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** put · **To what, where:** bushy tail, water

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. How the Bear Lost His Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg73136:37:23
# text = Put that long bushy tail of yours into the water.
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | that bushy tail of yours |  | the water |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tail=Goal |

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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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