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title: When the wind blew the coldest he would go out to where the reeds gr… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When the wind blew the coldest he would go out to where the reeds grew through the ice, and pulling them up, dive down into the holes for fish. Who acts: wind, reeds. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, with its depen
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVII. the North Wind’s Defeat, sentence 8

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When the wind blew the coldest he would go out to where the reeds grew through the ice, and pulling them up, dive down into the holes for fish.

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**Who acts:** wind, reeds · **What happens:** blow, go out, grow, pull up, dive down · **To what, where:** coldest, ice, reeds, holes

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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 (wind, 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:pg73136:62:8
# text = When the wind blew the coldest he would go out to where the reeds grew through the ice, and pulling them up, dive down into the holes for fish.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coldest	cold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	dive	dive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
26	down	down	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the wind | the coldest |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cold=Patient |
| 2 | **go out** | would | wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the reeds |  |  | the ice |  | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ice=Location |
| 4 | **pull up** | gerund |  | reeds *= reed* |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **dive down** | infinitive |  |  |  | the holes for fish |  | down *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Location |

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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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