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title: For some reason they did not offer to hurt him; they, however, were… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: For some reason they did not offer to hurt him; they, however, were willing to make themselves richer by whatever they could get from him. Who acts: Indians. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 34

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For some reason they did not offer to hurt him; they, however, were willing to make themselves richer by whatever they could get from him.

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**Who acts:** Indians · **What happens:** not offer, hurt, be, make, get · **To what, where:** professor, Indians

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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), 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:pg73136:10:34
# text = For some reason they did not offer to hurt him; they, however, were willing to make themselves richer by whatever they could get from him.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	however	however	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **offer** | past · do-support | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  | for some reason | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Indians *= indian* *not said here* | professor |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  | however, willing *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Indians *= indian* *not said here* | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
| 5 | **get** | could | Indians *= indian* |  |  |  |  | from professor | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme from he=Destination |

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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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