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title: Every day he went as before and pulled up the rushes and reeds from… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day he went as before and pulled up the rushes and reeds from the ice, and dived down for the fish which were always there. Who acts: fire, fish. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, with its dependency tree and 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 16

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Every day he went as before and pulled up the rushes and reeds from the ice, and dived down for the fish which were always there.

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**Who acts:** fire, fish · **What happens:** go, pull up, dive down, be · **To what, where:** rushes, ice

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, fish), 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:pg73136:62:16
# text = Every day he went as before and pulled up the rushes and reeds from the ice, and dived down for the fish which were always there.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | fire |  |  |  | day | before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pull up** | past | fire *not said here* | the rushes and reeds |  | the ice |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent rush=Theme from ice=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **dive down** | past | fire *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the fish | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for fish=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the fish |  |  |  |  | always, there *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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