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title: It comes as a good lesson, when in manhood a groan might show an ene… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: It comes as a good lesson, when in manhood a groan might show an enemy where they were hidden. Who acts: pain, groan. 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 7

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It comes as a good lesson, when in manhood a groan might show an enemy where they were hidden.

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**Who acts:** pain, groan · **What happens:** come, show, hide · **To what, where:** enemy, boys

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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 (pain, groan), 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:pg73136:10:7
# text = It comes as a good lesson, when in manhood a groan might show an enemy where they were hidden.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	groan	groan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | pain |  |  |  |  | as a good lesson | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | might | a groan | a enemy |  |  |  | in manhood | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient in manhood=Topic |
| 3 | **hide** | past · passive |  | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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