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title: She ran back to the grove and leaning against a tall tree told to it… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: She ran back to the grove and leaning against a tall tree told to it her sorrow. Who acts: Leelinaw. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 16

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She ran back to the grove and leaning against a tall tree told to it her sorrow.

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**Who acts:** Leelinaw · **What happens:** run back, lean, tell, sorrow · **To what, where:** tall tree, sorrow · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Leelinaw), 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:pg73136:48:16
# text = She ran back to the grove and leaning against a tall tree told to it her sorrow.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
9	against	against	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run back** | past | Leelinaw |  |  |  |  | to the grove *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to grove=Result |
| 2 | **lean** | gerund | Leelinaw *not said here* |  |  | a tall tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against tree=Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a tall tree *not said here* | Leelinaw's sorrow |  |  | grove *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Topic to it=Recipient |
| 4 | **sorrow** |  | Leelinaw |  |  |  |  |  | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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