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title: Seven braves were chasing a bear, which ran from the woods to a moun… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Seven braves were chasing a bear, which ran from the woods to a mountain. Who acts: Seven braves, chasing bear. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky, sentence 5

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Seven braves were chasing a bear, which ran from the woods to a mountain.

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**Who acts:** Seven braves, chasing bear · **What happens:** chase, be, run · **To what, where:** chasing bear, woods

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXV. the Great Bear in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Seven braves, chasing bear), 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:pg73136:50:5
# text = Seven braves were chasing a bear, which ran from the woods to a mountain.
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	braves	brave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Seven braves | a chasing bear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | past | a chasing bear |  |  | the woods |  | to a mountain *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mountain=Result |

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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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