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title: He stood up and ran, but he did not throw one string over the elk he… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He stood up and ran, but he did not throw one string over the elk head, nor over the camass root, nor over the rock like a salmon. Who acts: sun. 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 pragmati
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXVIII. a Rip Van Winkle, sentence 79

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He stood up and ran, but he did not throw one string over the elk head, nor over the camass root, nor over the rock like a salmon.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** stand up, run, not throw · **To what, where:** one string, elk head

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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 (sun), 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:pg73136:63:79
# text = He stood up and ran, but he did not throw one string over the elk head, nor over the camass root, nor over the rock like a salmon.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	elk	elk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	camass	camass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	28	cc	_	_
26	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | sun |  |  |  |  | the camass root *parataxis*; the rock like a salmon *parataxis* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **throw** | past · do-support | sun | one string |  | the elk head |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent string=Theme over head=Destination |

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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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