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title: “I will go to his lodge and visit him,” said the north wind one day,… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will go to his lodge and visit him,” said the north wind one day, as he saw Shingebis dragging home a great fish. Who acts: north wind, fire, Shingebis. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, with its dependency tree 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 17

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“I will go to his lodge and visit him,” said the north wind one day, as he saw Shingebis dragging home a great fish.

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**Who acts:** north wind, fire, Shingebis · **What happens:** go, visit, say, see, drag · **To what, where:** lodge, fire, Shingebis, great fish · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (north wind, fire, Shingebis), 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:pg73136:62:17
# text = “I will go to his lodge and visit him,” said the north wind one day, as he saw Shingebis dragging home a great fish.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	Shingebis	Shingebis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
25	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | future | the north wind  one day *= wind* |  |  | fire's lodge |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **visit** *in a quote* | infinitive | the north wind  one day *= wind* *not said here* | fire |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the north wind  one day |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | past | fire | Shingebis |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **drag** | gerund | Shingebis *not said here* | a great fish |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |

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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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