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title: He simply rose and stirred the coals of the fire about the log till… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He simply rose and stirred the coals of the fire about the log till they blazed and sent out a great heat. Who acts: Shingebis, coals. 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 the pragmatics of
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 29

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He simply rose and stirred the coals of the fire about the log till they blazed and sent out a great heat.

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**Who acts:** Shingebis, coals · **What happens:** rise, stir, blaze, send out · **To what, where:** coals, great heat

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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 (Shingebis, coals), 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:pg73136:62:29
# text = He simply rose and stirred the coals of the fire about the log till they blazed and sent out a great heat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	coals	coal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Shingebis |  |  |  |  | simply *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stir** | past | Shingebis *not said here* | the coals of the fire about the log |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus coal=Experiencer |
| 3 | **blaze** | past | coals *= coal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **send out** | past | coals *= coal* *not said here* | a great heat |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=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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