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title: The stranger stood very still, and then his blanket changed into lea… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The stranger stood very still, and then his blanket changed into leaves, and Usama the tobacco plant fell down to the ground. Who acts: stranger, blanket, Usama. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, with its dependency 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 23

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The stranger stood very still, and then his blanket changed into leaves, and Usama the tobacco plant fell down to the ground.

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**Who acts:** stranger, blanket, Usama · **What happens:** stand, change, fall down · **To what, where:** leaves

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, blanket, Usama), 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:pg73136:44:23
# text = The stranger stood very still, and then his blanket changed into leaves, and Usama the tobacco plant fell down to the ground.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	Usama	Usama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the stranger |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **change** | past | Earth's blanket |  |  |  | then | into leaves *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into leaf=Result |
| 3 | **fall down** | past | Usama |  |  |  |  | to the ground; down *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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