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title: Eshkossim the melon and Kokees the bean came together and called to… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Eshkossim the melon and Kokees the bean came together and called to White Earth the maiden to welcome them. Who acts: Eshkossim melon. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 29

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Eshkossim the melon and Kokees the bean came together and called to White Earth the maiden to welcome them.

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**Who acts:** Eshkossim melon · **What happens:** come together, call, welcome · **To what, where:** maiden, White Earth, melon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Eshkossim melon), 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:pg73136:44:29
# text = Eshkossim the melon and Kokees the bean came together and called to White Earth the maiden to welcome them.
1	Eshkossim	Eshkossim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Kokees	Kokee	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bean	bean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	White	White	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	welcome	welcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come together** | past | the Eshkossim melon and Kokees |  |  |  |  | the bean *nsubj*; together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle | the Eshkossim melon and Kokees *not said here* | the maiden | White Earth |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to earth=Recipient |
| 3 | **welcome** | to-infinitive | the Eshkossim melon and Kokees *not said here* | melon |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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