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title: “The great water manitou comes out when the sun is hottest to rest o… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: “The great water manitou comes out when the sun is hottest to rest on the shore. Who acts: great water manitou, sun. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle, sentence 12

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“The great water manitou comes out when the sun is hottest to rest on the shore.

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**Who acts:** great water manitou, sun · **What happens:** come out, be, rest · **To what, where:** shore

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, IV. How the Kingfisher Got His Ring and His Ruffle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great water manitou, 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:pg73136:73:12
# text = “The great water manitou comes out when the sun is hottest to rest on the shore.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	manitou	manitou	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	hottest	hot	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** *in a quote* | present | the great water manitou |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the sun |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=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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