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title: For one thing, the sick man’s friends are ordered to hang up his buc… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: For one thing, the sick man’s friends are ordered to hang up his buckskin moccasins stuffed with soft feathery down. Who acts: friends. 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
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 14

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For one thing, the sick man’s friends are ordered to hang up his buckskin moccasins stuffed with soft feathery down.

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**Who acts:** friends · **What happens:** order, hang up, stuff · **To what, where:** friends, buckskin moccasins

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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 (friends), 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:pg73136:12:14
# text = For one thing, the sick man’s friends are ordered to hang up his buckskin moccasins stuffed with soft feathery down.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	buckskin	buckskin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	stuffed	stuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	feathery	feathery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | present · passive |  | the sick man's friends |  |  |  | for one thing | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hang up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the sick man's friends *not said here* | soul's buckskin moccasins |  |  |  | down *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moccasin=Patient |
| 3 | **stuff** | participle |  | soul's buckskin moccasins *not said here* |  |  |  | with soft feathery | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feathery=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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