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title: A great gray fox rose then and answered: “I live on geese and the bi… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A great gray fox rose then and answered: “I live on geese and the birds of the forest. Who acts: great gray fox. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy, sentence 17

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A great gray fox rose then and answered: “I live on geese and the birds of the forest.

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**Who acts:** great gray fox · **What happens:** rise, answer, live · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XV. the Good Bear and the Lost Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great gray fox), 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:pg73136:40:17
# text = A great gray fox rose then and answered: “I live on geese and the birds of the forest.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | a great gray fox |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | a great gray fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** *in a quote* | present | a great gray fox *= fox* |  |  |  |  | on geese and the birds of the forest | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on goose=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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