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title: Shawondasee heaved a number of warm sighs, and as the pleasant south… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Shawondasee heaved a number of warm sighs, and as the pleasant south breezes reached the maiden the air seemed filled with tiny feathers. Who acts: Shawondasee, pleasant south breezes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, wi
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, sentence 15

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Shawondasee heaved a number of warm sighs, and as the pleasant south breezes reached the maiden the air seemed filled with tiny feathers.

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**Who acts:** Shawondasee, pleasant south breezes · **What happens:** heave, reach, fill · **To what, where:** number, maiden, air

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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, pleasant south breezes), 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:pg73136:45:15
# text = Shawondasee heaved a number of warm sighs, and as the pleasant south breezes reached the maiden the air seemed filled with tiny feathers.
1	Shawondasee	Shawondasee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heaved	heave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	breezes	breeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heave** | past | Shawondasee | a number of warm sighs |  |  |  |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the pleasant south breezes | the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the air |  |  |  | with tiny feathers | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with feather=Instrument |

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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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