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title: If by any means an answer came to their wails and calls, then the at… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: If by any means an answer came to their wails and calls, then the attack would be made. Who acts: answer, runners. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 11

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If by any means an answer came to their wails and calls, then the attack would be made.

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**Who acts:** answer, runners · **What happens:** mean, come, make, wail · **To what, where:** wails, attack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, runners), 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:pg73136:59:11
# text = If by any means an answer came to their wails and calls, then the attack would be made.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wails	wail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | by any | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | a answer |  |  | runners's wails and calls |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wail=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **make** | would · passive |  | the attack |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **wail** |  | runners *= runner* |  |  |  |  |  | nom wail «communication intransitive»: 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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