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title: His stooping form, his staff, and bundle are pointed out to Indian c… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: His stooping form, his staff, and bundle are pointed out to Indian children as they watch the stars at night. Who acts: form, Man. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIX. the Old Man in the Sky, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIX. the Old Man in the Sky, sentence 11

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His stooping form, his staff, and bundle are pointed out to Indian children as they watch the stars at night.

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**Who acts:** form, Man · **What happens:** stoop, point out, watch, form · **To what, where:** stooping form, Indian children, stars

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXIX. the Old Man 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 (form, Man), 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:pg73136:54:11
# text = His stooping form, his staff, and bundle are pointed out to Indian children as they watch the stars at night.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	watch	watch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **point out** | present · passive |  | Man's stooping form and Man's staff and bundle | Indian children |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to child=Recipient |
| 3 | **watch** | present | form | the stars |  |  | night |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
| 4 | **form** |  | Man |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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