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title: One day, while looking toward the prairies of the north, he saw a be… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, while looking toward the prairies of the north, he saw a beautiful girl with yellow hair standing on the plains in the west. Who acts: One day, Shawondasee, yellow hair. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, with its
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XX. the Prairie Dandelion, sentence 9

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One day, while looking toward the prairies of the north, he saw a beautiful girl with yellow hair standing on the plains in the west.

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**Who acts:** One day, Shawondasee, yellow hair · **What happens:** look, see, stand · **To what, where:** beautiful girl, plains

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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 (One day, Shawondasee, yellow hair), 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:pg73136:45:9
# text = One day, while looking toward the prairies of the north, he saw a beautiful girl with yellow hair standing on the plains in the west.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	prairies	prairie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund | One day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | toward the prairies of the north | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward prairie=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Shawondasee | a beautiful girl |  |  | day | with yellow hair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | yellow hair *not said here* |  |  | the plains in the west |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location |

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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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