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title: But another morning when he opened his sleepy eyes and looked, the y… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: But another morning when he opened his sleepy eyes and looked, the yellow locks on the maiden’s head were changed to fleecy white. Who acts: Shawondasee. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, sentence 11

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But another morning when he opened his sleepy eyes and looked, the yellow locks on the maiden’s head were changed to fleecy white.

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**Who acts:** Shawondasee · **What happens:** open, look, change · **To what, where:** sleepy eyes, yellow locks

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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), 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:pg73136:45:11
# text = But another morning when he opened his sleepy eyes and looked, the yellow locks on the maiden’s head were changed to fleecy white.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	fleecy	fleecy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | Shawondasee | Shawondasee's sleepy eyes |  |  | morning |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | Shawondasee *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **change** | past · passive |  | the yellow locks on the maiden's head |  |  |  | to fleecy white | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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