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title: Cloud Catcher and the girl played in the fields all day while the su… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Cloud Catcher and the girl played in the fields all day while the sun was off on his journeys. Who acts: you, girl, Catcher. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 22

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Cloud Catcher and the girl played in the fields all day while the sun was off on his journeys.

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**Who acts:** you, girl, Catcher · **What happens:** cloud, play off, journey · **To what, where:** Catcher, fields

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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, girl, Catcher), 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:pg73136:67:22
# text = Cloud Catcher and the girl played in the fields all day while the sun was off on his journeys.
1	Cloud	cloud	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Catcher	Catcher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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* | Catcher |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent catcher=Patient |
| 2 | **play off** | past | the girl |  |  | the fields | day | on Catcher's journeys | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **journey** |  | Catcher |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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