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title: When he awoke he saw the mother porcupine as big as a squaw. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When he awoke he saw the mother porcupine as big as a squaw. Who acts: boy. 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 6

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When he awoke he saw the mother porcupine as big as a squaw.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** awake, see · **To what, where:** mother porcupine

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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 (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:pg73136:40:6
# text = When he awoke he saw the mother porcupine as big as a squaw.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	squaw	squaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | boy | the mother porcupine |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer porcupine=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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