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title: One day the boy went to the great sun chief and said: “I used to eat… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the boy went to the great sun chief and said: “I used to eat much when in my father’s wigwam. Who acts: boy. 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 claus
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XLII. the Indian Who Married the Moon, sentence 26

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One day the boy went to the great sun chief and said: “I used to eat much when in my father’s wigwam.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** go, say, use, eat · **To what, where:** great sun chief · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy), 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:pg73136:67:26
# text = One day the boy went to the great sun chief and said: “I used to eat much when in my father’s wigwam.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the boy |  |  | the great sun chief | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to chief=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **use** *in a quote* | past | the boy *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the boy *= boy* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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