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title: For twelve moons the older boy hunted and fished and brought food to… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: For twelve moons the older boy hunted and fished and brought food to the wigwam; then he told his sister that he must go with some braves he had seen in the forest, and be a great warrior like his father. Who acts: older boy, boy. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIV. the Little Wolf Brother, sentence 5

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For twelve moons the older boy hunted and fished and brought food to the wigwam; then he told his sister that he must go with some braves he had seen in the forest, and be a great warrior like his father.

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**Who acts:** older boy, boy · **What happens:** hunt, fish, bring, tell, go, see · **To what, where:** food, wigwam, sister, braves, forest, great warrior · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (older boy, boy), 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:pg73136:39:5
# text = For twelve moons the older boy hunted and fished and brought food to the wigwam; then he told his sister that he must go with some braves he had seen in the forest, and be a great warrior like his father.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	fished	fish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	iobj	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
41	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | past | the older boy |  |  |  |  | for twelve moons | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for moon=Theme |
| 2 | **fish** | past | the older boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the older boy *not said here* | food |  | the wigwam |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to wigwam=Destination |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | boy |  | boy's sister |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** | must | boy |  |  |  |  | with some braves | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with brave=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **see** | past · perfect | boy | some braves *not said here* |  | the forest |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brave=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a great warrior |  |  |  | like boy's father | tree rules |

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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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