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title: When the poison light-arrow struck Osseo he became like an Indian wh… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When the poison light-arrow struck Osseo he became like an Indian who had seen a hundred winters. Who acts: poison light arrow, Osseo. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island, sentence 5

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When the poison light-arrow struck Osseo he became like an Indian who had seen a hundred winters.

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**Who acts:** poison light arrow, Osseo · **What happens:** strike, become, see · **To what, where:** Osseo

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXV. Legend of Mackinaw Island. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poison light arrow, Osseo), 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:pg73136:60:5
# text = When the poison light-arrow struck Osseo he became like an Indian who had seen a hundred winters.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
8	Osseo	Osseo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | the poison light arrow | Osseo |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent osseo=Instrument |
| 2 | **become** | past | Osseo |  |  |  |  | indian *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | winter | who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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