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title: There lay a pair of fine moccasins and many dry moose bones. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: There lay a pair of fine moccasins and many dry moose bones. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XL. the Magic Moccasins, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XL. the Magic Moccasins, sentence 9

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There lay a pair of fine moccasins and many dry moose bones.

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**What happens:** lie · **To what, where:** pair

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XL. the Magic Moccasins. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg73136:65:9
# text = There lay a pair of fine moccasins and many dry moose bones.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | a pair of fine moccasins and many dry moose bones |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=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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