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title: If the feathers become warm to the touch, they will know that the wa… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: If the feathers become warm to the touch, they will know that the wandering soul has touched them and perhaps is hiding in them. Who acts: feathers. 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 
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 15

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If the feathers become warm to the touch, they will know that the wandering soul has touched them and perhaps is hiding in them.

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**Who acts:** feathers · **What happens:** become, know, wonder, touch, hide · **To what, where:** wandering soul · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (feathers), 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:pg73136:12:15
# text = If the feathers become warm to the touch, they will know that the wandering soul has touched them and perhaps is hiding in them.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	ccomp	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the feathers |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | future | feathers *= feather* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **touch** | present · perfect · passive |  | the wandering soul |  |  |  | feathers *= feather* *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result |
| 5 | **hide** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | in feathers *= feather*; perhaps *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in they=Location |

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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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