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title: His going was not stopped by trees nor rocks, for nothing hindered h… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: His going was not stopped by trees nor rocks, for nothing hindered him. Who acts: rabbit, trees, nothing. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe, sentence 52

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His going was not stopped by trees nor rocks, for nothing hindered him.

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**Who acts:** rabbit, trees, nothing · **What happens:** go, not stop, hinder · **To what, where:** rabbit

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIV. the White Stone Canoe. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabbit, trees, nothing), 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:pg73136:49:52
# text = His going was not stopped by trees nor rocks, for nothing hindered him.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | past · passive | trees nor rocks |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hinder** | past | nothing | rabbit |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Eventuality |

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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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