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title: All the Place of Breaking Light was bright like a burning forest. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: All the Place of Breaking Light was bright like a burning forest. Who acts: Breaking. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From, sentence 31

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All the Place of Breaking Light was bright like a burning forest.

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**Who acts:** Breaking · **What happens:** be, burn · **To what, where:** Place

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXX. Where the Morning Star Came From. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Breaking), 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:pg73136:55:31
# text = All the Place of Breaking Light was bright like a burning forest.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	Breaking	Breaking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Breaking | all Place *not said here* |  |  |  | like a burning forest; Light *nsubj*; bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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