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title: Tired, sick, and nearly fainting with weariness, the Indian kept on… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Tired, sick, and nearly fainting with weariness, the Indian kept on his way. 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 38

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Tired, sick, and nearly fainting with weariness, the Indian kept on his way.

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**What happens:** faint, keep

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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: 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:pg73136:80:38
# text = Tired, sick, and nearly fainting with weariness, the Indian kept on his way.
1	Tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fainting	faint	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **faint** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with weariness on west's Indian kept way; nearly *property* | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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