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title: When the succotash was all gone, then the best singer would sing whi… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When the succotash was all gone, then the best singer would sing while the other six would dance around the mound. Who acts: succotash, best singer, other six. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, with its dependenc
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades, sentence 4

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When the succotash was all gone, then the best singer would sing while the other six would dance around the mound.

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**Who acts:** succotash, best singer, other six · **What happens:** be, sing, dance · **To what, where:** mound

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXII. the Seven Stars of Pleiades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (succotash, best singer, other six), 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:pg73136:57:4
# text = When the succotash was all gone, then the best singer would sing while the other six would dance around the mound.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	succotash	succotash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	around	around	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the succotash |  |  |  |  | all, gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | would | the best singer |  |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** | would | the other six |  |  | the mound |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around mound=Location |

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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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