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title: The moccasins are quickly put upon the feet of the patient that his… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The moccasins are quickly put upon the feet of the patient that his soul may not escape. Who acts: soul. 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 16

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The moccasins are quickly put upon the feet of the patient that his soul may not escape.

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**Who acts:** soul · **What happens:** put, not escape · **To what, where:** moccasins, feet, patient

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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 (soul), 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:pg73136:12:16
# text = The moccasins are quickly put upon the feet of the patient that his soul may not escape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present · passive |  | the moccasins |  | the feet of the patient |  | quickly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon foot=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **escape** | may | patient's soul | the patient *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme patient=Initial\_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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