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title: While planning an attack upon some other band runners were sent out… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: While planning an attack upon some other band runners were sent out ahead to call to the echo god and find out if it was his wish for them to fight. Who acts: attack, runners. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern L
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIV. the Echo God and the Northern Lights, sentence 8

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While planning an attack upon some other band runners were sent out ahead to call to the echo god and find out if it was his wish for them to fight.

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**Who acts:** attack, runners · **What happens:** plan, send out, call, find out, be, fight · **To what, where:** attack, other band runners, echo god, wish · **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 (attack, 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:pg73136:59:8
# text = While planning an attack upon some other band runners were sent out ahead to call to the echo god and find out if it was his wish for them to fight.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
28	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | gerund |  | a attack |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attack=Topic |
| 2 | **send out** | past · passive |  | some other band runners |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | to-infinitive |  |  | the echo god |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient |
| 4 | **find out** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | attack | Ohweh's wish |  |  |  | Ohweh *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 6 | **fight** | to-infinitive | runners *= runner* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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