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title: They tell this story of his reaching the sky, or the Great Blue Wigw… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They tell this story of his reaching the sky, or the Great Blue Wigwam. Who acts: people, 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 clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXIX. the Old Man in the Sky, sentence 4

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They tell this story of his reaching the sky, or the Great Blue Wigwam.

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**Who acts:** people, Man · **What happens:** tell, reach · **To what, where:** story, sky · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, 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:pg73136:54:4
# text = They tell this story of his reaching the sky, or the Great Blue Wigwam.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Wigwam	Wigwam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | people | this story |  |  |  | the Great Blue Wigwam *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund | Man | the sky |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sky=Theme |

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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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