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title: You must wait here until you find another heron as foolish as I am,… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: You must wait here until you find another heron as foolish as I am, to carry you the rest of the way.” Who acts: You. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf, sentence 31

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You must wait here until you find another heron as foolish as I am, to carry you the rest of the way.”

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** wait, find, carry · **To what, where:** heron, you

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIII. the Blue Heron and the Wolf. 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:pg73136:38:31
# text = You must wait here until you find another heron as foolish as I am, to carry you the rest of the way.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	heron	heron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | must | You |  |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | present | you | another heron |  |  |  | foolish *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=Topic |
| 3 | **carry** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  | you |  |  | the rest of the way *obj* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme you=Beneficiary rest=Value |

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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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