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title: The girl untied the strings that fastened her door, and looking up s… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl untied the strings that fastened her door, and looking up she saw a very tall chief with feathers in his scalp lock. Who acts: girl, strings. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, with its dependency tree and th
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XIX. the Marriage of Mondahmin, sentence 32

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The girl untied the strings that fastened her door, and looking up she saw a very tall chief with feathers in his scalp lock.

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**Who acts:** girl, strings · **What happens:** untie, fasten, look up, see · **To what, where:** strings, door, tall chief, scalp lock

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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 (girl, strings), 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:pg73136:44:32
# text = The girl untied the strings that fastened her door, and looking up she saw a very tall chief with feathers in his scalp lock.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	untied	untie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	strings	string	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **untie** | past | the girl | the strings |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient |
| 2 | **fasten** | past | the strings | girl's door |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 3 | **look up** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | girl | a tall chief |  | Earth's scalp lock |  | with feathers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chief=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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