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title: How Light, Fire, and Water first came to the World 264 XIV. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: How Light, Fire, and Water first came to the World 264 XIV. Who acts: Light. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes, sentence 12

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How Light, Fire, and Water first came to the World 264 XIV.

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**Who acts:** Light · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** World

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Stories Recently Told of Hiawatha and Other Heroes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Light), 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:pg73136:4:12
# text = How Light, Fire, and Water first came to the World 264 XIV.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	264	264	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
14	XIV	XIV	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Light and Fire and Water |  |  | the World |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to world=Initial\_Location |

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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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