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title: Hence, Longfellow chose it as the name of his Indian hero. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Hence, Longfellow chose it as the name of his Indian hero. Who acts: Longfellow. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 10

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Hence, Longfellow chose it as the name of his Indian hero.

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**Who acts:** Longfellow · **What happens:** choose, name · **To what, where:** belief, Indian hero

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Longfellow), 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:pg73136:1:10
# text = Hence, Longfellow chose it as the name of his Indian hero.
1	Hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Longfellow	Longfellow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | Longfellow | belief |  |  |  | as the name of Longfellow's Indian hero; hence *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **name** |  |  | Longfellow's Indian hero |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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