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title: They had a long talk, and the rabbit invited him to come to his heap… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: They had a long talk, and the rabbit invited him to come to his heap of little dry bushes and eat dinner with him. Who acts: woods, rabbit, marten. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, with its dependency tree and
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit, sentence 14

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They had a long talk, and the rabbit invited him to come to his heap of little dry bushes and eat dinner with him.

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**Who acts:** woods, rabbit, marten · **What happens:** have, invite, come, eat · **To what, where:** long talk, marten, heap, dinner

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, XII. the Marten and the White Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods, rabbit, marten), 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:pg73136:81:14
# text = They had a long talk, and the rabbit invited him to come to his heap of little dry bushes and eat dinner with him.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	invited	invite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	to	to	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	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | woods *= wood* | a long talk |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient |
| 2 | **invite** | past | the rabbit | marten |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | marten *not said here* |  |  | marten's heap of little dry bushes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heap=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **eat** | present | woods *= wood* *not said here* | dinner |  |  |  | with marten | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=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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