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title: The warrior, who had so bravely fought his way through bands of men… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The warrior, who had so bravely fought his way through bands of men and hidden ways of thick trees, gave the war cry like an eagle, then bounded back into the wilderness. Who acts: warrior. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Nev
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves, sentence 20

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The warrior, who had so bravely fought his way through bands of men and hidden ways of thick trees, gave the war cry like an eagle, then bounded back into the wilderness.

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**Who acts:** warrior · **What happens:** have, fight, give, bound back · **To what, where:** way, bands, war cry, wilderness

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVII. the Star That Never Moves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warrior), 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:pg73136:52:20
# text = The warrior, who had so bravely fought his way through bands of men and hidden ways of thick trees, gave the war cry like an eagle, then bounded back into the wilderness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
31	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the warrior |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fight** | past | the warrior | warrior's way |  | bands of men and hidden ways of thick trees |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past |  | the war cry |  |  |  | like a eagle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 4 | **bound back** | participle |  |  |  | the wilderness | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Destination |

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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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