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title: A kind old squaw came out of this wigwam and brought food to him, an… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A kind old squaw came out of this wigwam and brought food to him, and spread out skins for his bed. Who acts: kind old squaw. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 11

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A kind old squaw came out of this wigwam and brought food to him, and spread out skins for his bed.

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**Who acts:** kind old squaw · **What happens:** come out, bring, spread out · **To what, where:** wigwam, food, squaw, skins

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind old squaw), 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:pg73136:42:11
# text = A kind old squaw came out of this wigwam and brought food to him, and spread out skins for his bed.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	squaw	squaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | a kind old squaw | this wigwam |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient wigwam=Result |
| 2 | **bring** | past | a kind old squaw *not said here* | food | squaw |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent food=Theme to he=Destination |
| 3 | **spread out** | infinitive | a kind old squaw *not said here* | skins |  |  |  | for squaw's bed | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Theme |

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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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