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title: The Indian wanted the fox’s skin, but did not have time to take it. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The Indian wanted the fox’s skin, but did not have time to take it. Who acts: Indian. 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 7

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The Indian wanted the fox’s skin, but did not have time to take it.

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**Who acts:** Indian · **What happens:** want, not have, take · **To what, where:** skin

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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 (Indian), 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:pg73136:37:7
# text = The Indian wanted the fox’s skin, but did not have time to take it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the Indian | the fox's skin |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **have** | past · do-support | the Indian *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Indian *not said here* | skin |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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