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title: The pictorial features, therefore, reproduce with unusual fidelity t… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The pictorial features, therefore, reproduce with unusual fidelity the atmosphere of Indian life. Who acts: pictorial features. 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 18

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The pictorial features, therefore, reproduce with unusual fidelity the atmosphere of Indian life.

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**Who acts:** pictorial features · **What happens:** reproduce · **To what, where:** atmosphere

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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 (pictorial features), 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:pg73136:1:18
# text = The pictorial features, therefore, reproduce with unusual fidelity the atmosphere of Indian life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pictorial	pictorial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	atmosphere	atmosphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reproduce** | infinitive | the pictorial features | the atmosphere of Indian life |  |  |  | with unusual fidelity; therefore *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent atmosphere=Patient with fidelity=Instrument |

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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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