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title: The birds were all red, blue, or yellow like the war paint warriors… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The birds were all red, blue, or yellow like the war paint warriors now use. Who acts: birds. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVI. How the Water Lily Came, sentence 7

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The birds were all red, blue, or yellow like the war paint warriors now use.

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**Who acts:** birds · **What happens:** be, use

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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 (birds), 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:pg73136:61:7
# text = The birds were all red, blue, or yellow like the war paint warriors now use.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the birds |  |  |  |  | all, red *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like the paint warriors | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | present | the birds *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn eat-39.1 «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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