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title: The winters were not cold; it was always like the Strawberry Moon, f… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The winters were not cold; it was always like the Strawberry Moon, for the days were warm and the nights were not cold. Who acts: winters, food, days, nights. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, with its dependency tre
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 5

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The winters were not cold; it was always like the Strawberry Moon, for the days were warm and the nights were not cold.

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**Who acts:** winters, food, days, nights · **What happens:** not be, be

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winters, food, days, nights), 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:pg73136:61:5
# text = The winters were not cold; it was always like the Strawberry Moon, for the days were warm and the nights were not cold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Strawberry	Strawberry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the winters |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | food |  |  |  |  | like the Strawberry Moon; always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the days |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | the nights |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

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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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