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title: As he slipped out of the doorway not saying a word, he flew as strai… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: As he slipped out of the doorway not saying a word, he flew as straight as he could to the places where the reeds and rushes grew. Who acts: Kabibonokka, reeds. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, with its dependency 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 33

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As he slipped out of the doorway not saying a word, he flew as straight as he could to the places where the reeds and rushes grew.

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**Who acts:** Kabibonokka, reeds · **What happens:** slip out, not say, fly, grow · **To what, where:** doorway, word · **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 (Kabibonokka, reeds), 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:pg73136:62:33
# text = As he slipped out of the doorway not saying a word, he flew as straight as he could to the places where the reeds and rushes grew.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip out** | past | Kabibonokka | the doorway |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent doorway=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Kabibonokka *not said here* | a word |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Kabibonokka |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the reeds and rushes |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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