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title: He shot at the stars, and sometimes hit one so hard that it let go a… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: He shot at the stars, and sometimes hit one so hard that it let go and fell down through the sky. Who acts: Catcher, sun. 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 every 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 23

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He shot at the stars, and sometimes hit one so hard that it let go and fell down through the sky.

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**Who acts:** Catcher, sun · **What happens:** shoot, hit, let, go, fall down · **To what, where:** stars, one, sky

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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 (Catcher, sun), 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:pg73136:67:23
# text = He shot at the stars, and sometimes hit one so hard that it let go and fell down through the sky.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past | Catcher |  |  | the stars |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at star=Destination |
| 2 | **hit** | infinitive |  | one |  |  |  | hard, sometimes *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **let** | past | sun |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **fall down** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  | the sky |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through sky=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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