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title: There are no adaptations from Longfellow’s poem of Hiawatha, but the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: There are no adaptations from Longfellow’s poem of Hiawatha, but the compiler has gone directly to the works of Schoolcraft, whose writings were Longfellow’s inspiration. Who acts: adaptations, compiler, writings, Schoolcraft. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Cat
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Opening, sentence 8

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There are no adaptations from Longfellow’s poem of Hiawatha, but the compiler has gone directly to the works of Schoolcraft, whose writings were Longfellow’s inspiration.

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**Who acts:** adaptations, compiler, writings, Schoolcraft, inspiration · **What happens:** be, go, work, write · **To what, where:** works, inspiration

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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 (adaptations, compiler, writings, Schoolcraft), 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:pg73136:1:8
# text = There are no adaptations from Longfellow’s poem of Hiawatha, but the compiler has gone directly to the works of Schoolcraft, whose writings were Longfellow’s inspiration.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	adaptations	adaptation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	Longfellow	Longfellow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Hiawatha	Hiawatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	compiler	compiler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
17	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Schoolcraft	Schoolcraft	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	writings	writing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	Longfellow	Longfellow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	inspiration	inspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no adaptations from Longfellow's poem of Hiawatha |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present · perfect | the compiler |  |  | the works of Schoolcraft and Longfellow's inspiration |  | directly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Longfellow's inspiration's writings | Longfellow's inspiration |  |  |  | Longfellow *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** |  | Schoolcraft |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **write** |  | Longfellow's inspiration |  |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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