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title: She put her own moccasins and her new suit on the buffalo robe which… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: She put her own moccasins and her new suit on the buffalo robe which was their bed, and while the little brother was playing at hunting she ran away to the wigwam they had seen. Who acts: answer, buffalo robe, little brother, moccasins. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» b
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 24

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She put her own moccasins and her new suit on the buffalo robe which was their bed, and while the little brother was playing at hunting she ran away to the wigwam they had seen.

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**Who acts:** answer, buffalo robe, little brother, moccasins · **What happens:** put, be, play, hunt, run away, see · **To what, where:** own moccasins, buffalo robe, bed, wigwam

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, buffalo robe, little brother, moccasins), 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:pg73136:39:24
# text = She put her own moccasins and her new suit on the buffalo robe which was their bed, and while the little brother was playing at hunting she ran away to the wigwam they had seen.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | answer | answer's own moccasins and answer's new suit |  | the buffalo robe and robe's bed |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent moccasin=Theme on robe=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the buffalo robe and robe's bed | robe's bed |  |  |  | robe *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | past · progressive | the little brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | the little brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run away** | past | answer |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | past · perfect | moccasins *= moccasin* | the wigwam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wigwam=Stimulus |

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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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