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title: Cloud Catcher went through the clouds into the beautiful country beh… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Cloud Catcher went through the clouds into the beautiful country behind the sky, and soon they stopped in front of a great teepee which belonged to a great chief with hair like fire. Who acts: you, Catcher, stars, great teepee. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Ca
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 16

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Cloud Catcher went through the clouds into the beautiful country behind the sky, and soon they stopped in front of a great teepee which belonged to a great chief with hair like fire.

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**Who acts:** you, Catcher, stars, great teepee · **What happens:** cloud, go, stop, belong · **To what, where:** clouds, front

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Catcher, stars, great teepee), 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:pg73136:67:16
# text = Cloud Catcher went through the clouds into the beautiful country behind the sky, and soon they stopped in front of a great teepee which belonged to a great chief with hair like fire.
1	Cloud	cloud	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Catcher	Catcher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	teepee	teepee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cloud** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | Catcher |  |  | the clouds |  | into the beautiful country; behind the sky | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through cloud=Initial\_Location into country=Destination |
| 3 | **stop** | past | stars *= star* |  |  | front of a great teepee |  | soon *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 4 | **belong** | past | a great teepee |  |  |  |  | to a great chief with hair like fire | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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