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title: Each day for ten days the father came to the little lodge in the wil… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Each day for ten days the father came to the little lodge in the wilderness and asked his son if the strong manitou had come to him. Who acts: father, strong manitou. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, with its depe
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 11

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Each day for ten days the father came to the little lodge in the wilderness and asked his son if the strong manitou had come to him.

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**Who acts:** father, strong manitou · **What happens:** come, ask · **To what, where:** little lodge, son, father

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, strong manitou), 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:pg73136:66:11
# text = Each day for ten days the father came to the little lodge in the wilderness and asked his son if the strong manitou had come to him.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	manitou	manitou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the father |  |  | the little lodge in the wilderness | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lodge=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the father *not said here* |  | father's son |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | the strong manitou |  | father |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_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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