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title: When his eyes came open he was hungry; he dug some camass root, and… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: When his eyes came open he was hungry; he dug some camass root, and made a pipe and smoked. Who acts: eyes, water. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 101

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When his eyes came open he was hungry; he dug some camass root, and made a pipe and smoked.

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**Who acts:** eyes, water · **What happens:** come, be, dig, make, smoke · **To what, where:** camass root, pipe

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, water), 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:pg73136:63:101
# text = When his eyes came open he was hungry; he dug some camass root, and made a pipe and smoked.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	camass	camass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	smoked	smoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | water's eyes |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | water |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dig** | past | water | some camass root |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | a pipe |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pipe=Product |
| 5 | **smoke** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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