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title: Tired, hungry, and very weak, behind him came the faithful dog. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Tired, hungry, and very weak, behind him came the faithful dog. Who acts: west. 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 39

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Tired, hungry, and very weak, behind him came the faithful dog.

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**Who acts:** west · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** faithful dog

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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 (west), 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:pg73136:80:39
# text = Tired, hungry, and very weak, behind him came the faithful dog.
1	Tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | west | the faithful dog |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme |

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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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