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title: This prophecy is repeated in the religious dances, and the medicine… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: This prophecy is repeated in the religious dances, and the medicine men comfort their people with it when the tribes feel the injustice of the whites. Who acts: medicine men, tribes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Indian Traits, with its depende
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Indian Traits, sentence 58

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This prophecy is repeated in the religious dances, and the medicine men comfort their people with it when the tribes feel the injustice of the whites.

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**Who acts:** medicine men, tribes · **What happens:** repeat, comfort, feel · **To what, where:** prophecy, religious dances, people, injustice

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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 (medicine men, 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:pg73136:10:58
# text = This prophecy is repeated in the religious dances, and the medicine men comfort their people with it when the tribes feel the injustice of the whites.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	comfort	comfort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	injustice	injustice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | present · passive |  | this prophecy |  | the religious dances |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **comfort** | present | the medicine men | dances's people |  |  |  | with prophecy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |
| 3 | **feel** | present | the tribes | the injustice of the whites |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injustice=Theme |

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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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