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title: Very strangely, many of the tribes expected the coming of the white… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Very strangely, many of the tribes expected the coming of the white man. Who acts: many. 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 47

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Very strangely, many of the tribes expected the coming of the white man.

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**Who acts:** many · **What happens:** expect, come

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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 (many), 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:pg73136:10:47
# text = Very strangely, many of the tribes expected the coming of the white man.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	strangely	strangely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	expected	expect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **expect** | past | many of the tribes |  |  |  |  | strangely *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** *not said to happen* | gerund | many of the tribes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the white man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of man=Initial\_Location |

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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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