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title: How the Copper Mountain came to fall 266 XV. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: How the Copper Mountain came to fall 266 XV. Who acts: Copper Mountain. 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 13

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How the Copper Mountain came to fall 266 XV.

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**Who acts:** Copper Mountain · **What happens:** come, fall · **To what, where:** 266 XV

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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 (Copper Mountain), 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:pg73136:4:13
# text = How the Copper Mountain came to fall 266 XV.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Copper	Copper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	266	266	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	XV	xv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Copper Mountain |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | to-infinitive | the Copper Mountain *not said here* | 266 XV |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient xv=Result |

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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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