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title: The trail led westward, but the morning sun cast no long shadows of… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The trail led westward, but the morning sun cast no long shadows of the wife and children. Who acts: trail, morning sun. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 32

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The trail led westward, but the morning sun cast no long shadows of the wife and children.

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**Who acts:** trail, morning sun · **What happens:** lead, cast, shadow · **To what, where:** long shadows, wife

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trail, morning 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:pg73136:80:32
# text = The trail led westward, but the morning sun cast no long shadows of the wife and children.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the trail |  |  |  |  | westward *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **cast** | present | the morning sun | no long shadows of the wife and children |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Product |
| 3 | **shadow** |  |  | the wife and children |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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