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title: Then they could see her no more, but two tall pines stood in the pla… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they could see her no more, but two tall pines stood in the place where she and the brave had been resting. Who acts: Indians, two tall pines, 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 depende
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIII. the Girl Who Became a Pine Tree, sentence 35

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Then they could see her no more, but two tall pines stood in the place where she and the brave had been resting.

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**Who acts:** Indians, two tall pines, Leelinaw · **What happens:** see, stand, rest · **To what, where:** Leelinaw, place

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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 (Indians, two tall pines, 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:pg73136:48:35
# text = Then they could see her no more, but two tall pines stood in the place where she and the brave had been resting.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux	_	_
24	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | Indians *= indian* | Leelinaw |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | two tall pines |  |  | the place |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 3 | **rest** | past · perfect · progressive | Leelinaw |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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