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title: Indians seem to have great pity for the unfortunate few of their tri… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Indians seem to have great pity for the unfortunate few of their tribe who have lost their senses, becoming either insane or foolish. Who acts: Indians, unfortunate few tribe. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits, with its dependency tre
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 28

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Indians seem to have great pity for the unfortunate few of their tribe who have lost their senses, becoming either insane or foolish.

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**Who acts:** Indians, unfortunate few tribe · **What happens:** seem, have, lose, become · **To what, where:** great pity, senses

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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 (Indians, unfortunate few tribe), 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:pg73136:10:28
# text = Indians seem to have great pity for the unfortunate few of their tribe who have lost their senses, becoming either insane or foolish.
1	Indians	indian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	insane	insane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Indians |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Indians *not said here* | great pity |  |  |  | for Indians's unfortunate few tribe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** | present · perfect | Indians's unfortunate few tribe | Indians's senses |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality |
| 4 | **become** | gerund | Indians's unfortunate few tribe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | insane *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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