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title: In a few days he was taken with a fever; again he told the old squaw… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: In a few days he was taken with a fever; again he told the old squaw what plants and leaves to go out and gather for him. Who acts: 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 tre
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XVII. How the Indians Came to Know Medicine Plants, sentence 16

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In a few days he was taken with a fever; again he told the old squaw what plants and leaves to go out and gather for him.

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**Who acts:** squaw · **What happens:** take, tell, go out, gather · **To what, where:** squaw, old squaw, plants · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg73136:42:16
# text = In a few days he was taken with a fever; again he told the old squaw what plants and leaves to go out and gather for him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	squaw	squaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
19	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	iobj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gather	gather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · passive |  | squaw |  |  | day | with a fever | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | squaw | the old squaw | plants and leaves |  | again | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gather** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for squaw | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |

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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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