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title: A certain professor belonging to a well-known eastern college had re… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: A certain professor belonging to a well-known eastern college had reason to be thankful for this trait not many years ago. Who acts: certain professor. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 29

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A certain professor belonging to a well-known eastern college had reason to be thankful for this trait not many years ago.

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**Who acts:** certain professor · **What happens:** belong, know, have, be · **To what, where:** reason

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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 (certain professor), 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:pg73136:10:29
# text = A certain professor belonging to a well-known eastern college had reason to be thankful for this trait not many years ago.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	professor	professor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	college	college	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	thankful	thankful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	trait	trait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | gerund | a certain professor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a known eastern college | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | past | a certain professor | reason |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | a certain professor *not said here* | reason *not said here* |  |  |  | for this trait; thankful *property* | tree rules |

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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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