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title: The father rushed into the lodge, but as he touched his boy the lad… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The father rushed into the lodge, but as he touched his boy the lad changed into a bird and flew out of the open doorway. Who acts: father, lad. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLI. Opechee the Robin Redbreast, sentence 33

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The father rushed into the lodge, but as he touched his boy the lad changed into a bird and flew out of the open doorway.

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**Who acts:** father, lad · **What happens:** rush, touch, change, fly out · **To what, where:** lodge, boy, open doorway

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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, lad), 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:pg73136:66:33
# text = The father rushed into the lodge, but as he touched his boy the lad changed into a bird and flew out of the open doorway.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lodge	lodge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | the father |  |  |  |  | into the lodge *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lodge=Result |
| 2 | **touch** | past | father | father's boy |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **change** | past | the lad |  |  |  |  | into a bird *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bird=Result |
| 4 | **fly out** | past | the lad *not said here* | the open doorway |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doorway=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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