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title: The red man fell before the fire-water like the green leaves of the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The red man fell before the fire-water like the green leaves of the forest before the storm wind. Who acts: red man. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech, sentence 29

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The red man fell before the fire-water like the green leaves of the forest before the storm wind.

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**Who acts:** red man · **What happens:** fall · **To what, where:** fire water

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXII. an Indian Temperance Speech. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red man), 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:pg73136:47:29
# text = The red man fell before the fire-water like the green leaves of the forest before the storm wind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the red man |  |  | the fire water | before the storm wind | like the green leaves of the forest | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before water=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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