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title: The medicine men of many tribes dress themselves in hideous fashion… — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · tree and pragmatics
description: The medicine men of many tribes dress themselves in hideous fashion to excite the fear and compel the respect of their people. Who acts: medicine men. A sentence of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd, Medicine Men Among the Indians, with its dependency tree and th
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# Wigwam stories told by North American Indians, Medicine Men Among the Indians, sentence 18

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The medicine men of many tribes dress themselves in hideous fashion to excite the fear and compel the respect of their people.

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**Who acts:** medicine men · **What happens:** dress, excite, compel, respect · **To what, where:** men, hideous fashion, fear, respect, people

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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 (medicine men), 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:pg73136:12:18
# text = The medicine men of many tribes dress themselves in hideous fashion to excite the fear and compel the respect of their people.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	dress	dress	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	excite	excite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	compel	compel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | present | the medicine men of many tribes | men *= man* |  | hideous fashion |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 2 | **excite** | to-infinitive | the medicine men of many tribes *not said here* | the fear |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fear=Experiencer |
| 3 | **compel** | infinitive | the medicine men of many tribes *not said here* | the respect of men's people |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Patient |
| 4 | **respect** |  |  | men's people |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=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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