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title: One day a famous old war chief came to her father’s teepee with gifts. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a famous old war chief came to her father’s teepee with gifts. Who acts: famous old war chief. 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 8

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One day a famous old war chief came to her father’s teepee with gifts.

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**Who acts:** famous old war chief · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** teepee

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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 (famous old war chief), 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:pg73136:48:8
# text = One day a famous old war chief came to her father’s teepee with gifts.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a famous old war chief |  |  | chief's father's teepee with gifts | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to teepee=Initial\_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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