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title: Some picked these up and ran away, for they were rich now, and did n… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Some picked these up and ran away, for they were rich now, and did not care for the prize; but, when they reached the village, the wampum turned to turkey feathers in their hands. Who acts: Some, strings, wampum. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, X
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy, sentence 14

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Some picked these up and ran away, for they were rich now, and did not care for the prize; but, when they reached the village, the wampum turned to turkey feathers in their hands.

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**Who acts:** Some, strings, wampum · **What happens:** pick up, run away, be, not care, reach, turn · **To what, where:** these, village, hands

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XXXIX. Legend of the Wampum-bird and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, strings, wampum), 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:pg73136:64:14
# text = Some picked these up and ran away, for they were rich now, and did not care for the prize; but, when they reached the village, the wampum turned to turkey feathers in their hands.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wampum	wampum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | Some | these |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 2 | **run away** | past | Some *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | strings *= string* |  |  |  | now | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **care** | past · do-support | Some *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the prize | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for prize=Theme |
| 5 | **reach** | past | strings *= string* | the village |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme |
| 6 | **turn** | past | the wampum |  |  | strings's hands |  | to turkey feathers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to feather=Source in hand=Trajectory |

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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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