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title: When they were on the warpath and night overtook them, the scattered… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When they were on the warpath and night overtook them, the scattered ones were gathered in by using the call to the echo god. Who acts: warriors, warpath. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, with its depen
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 7

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When they were on the warpath and night overtook them, the scattered ones were gathered in by using the call to the echo god.

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**Who acts:** warriors, warpath · **What happens:** be, overtake, gather, use · **To what, where:** warpath, warriors, scattered ones, call

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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 (warriors, warpath), 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:pg73136:59:7
# text = When they were on the warpath and night overtook them, the scattered ones were gathered in by using the call to the echo god.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	warpath	warpath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	14	amod	_	_
14	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | warriors *= warrior* |  |  | the warpath and night |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overtake** | past | the warpath and night | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gather** | past · passive |  | the scattered ones |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **use** | gerund |  | the call |  |  |  | to the echo god | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient |

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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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