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title: The watchman opened the gate and, taking the brave by the hand, led… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The watchman opened the gate and, taking the brave by the hand, led him past the two great rocks that held the wonderful gate. Who acts: watchman, two great rocks. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, with its dependenc
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XI. the One Who Loved Him Most, sentence 42

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The watchman opened the gate and, taking the brave by the hand, led him past the two great rocks that held the wonderful gate.

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**Who acts:** watchman, two great rocks · **What happens:** open, take, lead, hold · **To what, where:** gate, brave, watchman, two great rocks, wonderful gate

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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 (watchman, two great rocks), 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:pg73136:80:42
# text = The watchman opened the gate and, taking the brave by the hand, led him past the two great rocks that held the wonderful gate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	past	past	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the watchman | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | the watchman *not said here* | the brave |  |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brave=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the watchman *not said here* | watchman |  | the two great rocks |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme past rock=Destination |
| 4 | **hold** | past | the two great rocks | the wonderful gate |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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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