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title: Ietan was proven to have basely deceived the council. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Ietan was proven to have basely deceived the council. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 23

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Ietan was proven to have basely deceived the council.

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**What happens:** prove, deceive · **To what, where:** Ietan, council

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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: 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:pg73136:10:23
# text = Ietan was proven to have basely deceived the council.
1	Ietan	Ietan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	proven	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
6	basely	basely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past · passive |  | Ietan |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **deceive** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | the council |  |  |  | basely *property* | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=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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