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title: While he was with the Onondagas the runners brought word that a grea… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: While he was with the Onondagas the runners brought word that a great band of warriors was coming to fight them. Who acts: Hiawatha, Onondagas, that. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations, with its dependency tree and the
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, How He United the Five Nations, sentence 44

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While he was with the Onondagas the runners brought word that a great band of warriors was coming to fight them.

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**Who acts:** Hiawatha, Onondagas, that · **What happens:** be, bring, come, fight · **To what, where:** word, runners

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, How He United the Five Nations. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiawatha, Onondagas, that), 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:pg73136:77:44
# text = While he was with the Onondagas the runners brought word that a great band of warriors was coming to fight them.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Onondagas	Onondaga	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	runners	runner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Hiawatha |  |  |  |  | with the Onondagas | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | the Onondagas | word |  |  |  | the runners *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past · progressive | that |  |  |  |  | a great band of warriors *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | runners *= runner* |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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