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title: But each log would burn a whole moon, and as but four moons were col… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: But each log would burn a whole moon, and as but four moons were cold, there was wood enough. Who acts: log, four moons, wood. 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 every c
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 5

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But each log would burn a whole moon, and as but four moons were cold, there was wood enough.

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**Who acts:** log, four moons, wood · **What happens:** burn, be · **To what, where:** whole moon

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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 (log, four moons, wood), 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:pg73136:62:5
# text = But each log would burn a whole moon, and as but four moons were cold, there was wood enough.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	log	log	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
20	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
21	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | would | each log | a whole moon |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent moon=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | four moons |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | wood |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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