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title: The tree did not fall, and Tchakobeech made his sister climb up firs… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The tree did not fall, and Tchakobeech made his sister climb up first, for then he could help her if her foot slipped. Who acts: tree, Tchakobeech, sister, foot. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, with 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXVIII. Trapping in the Happy Hunting Grounds, sentence 20

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The tree did not fall, and Tchakobeech made his sister climb up first, for then he could help her if her foot slipped.

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**Who acts:** tree, Tchakobeech, sister, foot · **What happens:** not fall, make, climb up, help, slip · **To what, where:** sister, 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 (tree, Tchakobeech, sister, foot), 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:pg73136:53:20
# text = The tree did not fall, and Tchakobeech made his sister climb up first, for then he could help her if her foot slipped.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Tchakobeech	Tchakobeech	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fall** | past · do-support | the tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | Tchakobeech | Tchakobeech's sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **climb up** | infinitive | Tchakobeech's sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | could | Tchakobeech |  | tree |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **slip** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | tree's foot |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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