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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 10

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Tchakobeech left the wigwam one morning and climbed to the top of the tallest pine tree on the highest hill that he could find.

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**Who acts:** Tchakobeech · **What happens:** leave, climb, find · **To what, where:** wigwam, highest hill

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tchakobeech), 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:pg73136:53:10
# text = Tchakobeech left the wigwam one morning and climbed to the top of the tallest pine tree on the highest hill that he could find.
1	Tchakobeech	Tchakobeech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
15	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Tchakobeech | the wigwam |  |  | morning |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wigwam=Theme |
| 2 | **climb** | past | Tchakobeech *not said here* |  |  | the highest hill |  | to the top of the tallest pine tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | could | Tchakobeech |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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