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title: Nearly all tribes have their medicine men. — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: Nearly all tribes have their medicine men. Who acts: tribes. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Medicine Men Among the Indians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 1

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Nearly all tribes have their medicine men.

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**Who acts:** tribes · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** medicine men

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This is a sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Medicine Men Among the Indians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg73136:12:1
# text = Nearly all tribes have their medicine men.
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | all tribes | tribes's medicine men |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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