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title: Their reading of weather signs is very accurate, and possibly their… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Their reading of weather signs is very accurate, and possibly their rain-makers are simply experts in these signs. Who acts: reading, rain makers, Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 2

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Their reading of weather signs is very accurate, and possibly their rain-makers are simply experts in these signs.

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**Who acts:** reading, rain makers, Indians · **What happens:** be, read · **To what, where:** experts, signs, weather signs

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reading, rain makers, Indians), 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:pg73136:10:2
# text = Their reading of weather signs is very accurate, and possibly their rain-makers are simply experts in these signs.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	makers	maker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Indians's reading of weather signs |  |  |  |  | accurate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Indians's rain makers | experts |  | this signs |  | possibly, simply *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** |  | Indians *= indian* | weather signs |  |  |  |  | nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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