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title: Each time he was near the top of the pine he blew his breath on the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Each time he was near the top of the pine he blew his breath on the tree, and it grew twice as tall as it was at first. Who acts: Tchakobeech, breath. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, with its depende
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 12

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Each time he was near the top of the pine he blew his breath on the tree, and it grew twice as tall as it was at first.

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**Who acts:** Tchakobeech, breath · **What happens:** be, blow, grow · **To what, where:** time, top, breath, tree

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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, breath), 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:pg73136:53:12
# text = Each time he was near the top of the pine he blew his breath on the tree, and it grew twice as tall as it was at first.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **is** | past | Tchakobeech | each time *not said here* |  | the top |  | of the pine | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | past | Tchakobeech | Tchakobeech's breath |  | the tree | time |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent breath=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | past | breath |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | breath |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |

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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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