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title: Village life is very tame compared with the wandering life when the… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Village life is very tame compared with the wandering life when the tribes moved to some new place almost every moon. Who acts: Village life, tribes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 56

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Village life is very tame compared with the wandering life when the tribes moved to some new place almost every moon.

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**Who acts:** Village life, tribes · **What happens:** be, compare, wonder, move · **To what, where:** moon, new place

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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 (Village life, tribes), 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:pg73136:10:56
# text = Village life is very tame compared with the wandering life when the tribes moved to some new place almost every moon.
1	Village	village	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Village life |  |  |  |  | tame *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compare** | participle | Village life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the wandering life | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with life=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **move** | past | the tribes | every moon |  | some new place |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory |

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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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