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title: Every morning for days he saw this maiden, and she seemed more lovel… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Every morning for days he saw this maiden, and she seemed more lovely each day. Who acts: Shawondasee, girl. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, sentence 10

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Every morning for days he saw this maiden, and she seemed more lovely each day.

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**Who acts:** Shawondasee, girl · **What happens:** see, seem

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XX. the Prairie Dandelion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shawondasee, girl), 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:pg73136:45:10
# text = Every morning for days he saw this maiden, and she seemed more lovely each day.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Shawondasee |  |  |  | morning | maiden *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **seem** | past | girl |  |  |  | day | lovely *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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